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Forget the hype surrounding Nikki Haley (51), the only presidential candidate. Don’t trust the power of the American legal system. Donald Trump (77) will enter the race for the White House as the Republican candidate in eleven months. And if you can trust the average of all polls, his chances of winning against Joe Biden (81) are higher than ever! Trump 2.0 is more than just a nightmare. At this point, his return to the White House is the most likely scenario for the US elections.
Robert Kagan, analyst at the Washington Post, is already warning of a ‘dictatorship’ and compares Trump’s return to a meteorite hitting America. This is nonsense. But even without unnecessary dramatization, no one can now turn a blind eye: Trump’s re-election would pose a fundamental threat in three ways – including for Switzerland.
1) NATO almost dead
In 2018, Trump threatened that America could leave the defense alliance at any time. A near-death experience for NATO. Shortly afterwards, Trump reportedly told his security adviser John Bolton: “I don’t care about NATO.”
Trump is no friend of the military alliance. Without moderate advisors in his environment, he was able to carry out his threat. Even if he couldn’t get America out of NATO legally that easily, the danger would be real. A simple “We will not come to your aid” to the Baltic states or Poland would amount to a de facto invitation to Vladimir Putin (71) to continue his territorial assault. Not to mention the fate of Ukraine, which would have lost the war in one fell swoop with the end of US military involvement in Europe and would have had to bow to Putin’s terror regime.
A divided Europe is unwilling to navigate the geopolitical future without America’s protection.
2) A blow to the women
Melania Trump (53) did not seem very happy during her husband’s first term in office. Trump’s re-election meant another four years of forced smiles for the Slovenian native. But Melania wouldn’t be the only woman to suffer.
Trump 2.0 would be a slap in the face for the global women’s movement, says American writer Sophie Gilbert. Not only are there the 25 women who accuse him of various attacks ranging from harassment to rape, there are not only the tirades against women he doesn’t like, but most of all there is the sea change in American abortion policy that he made possible. It is only thanks to Trump’s conservative appointees to the Supreme Court that abortions are now banned in a third of all US states.
Trump – a fan of voluptuous curves, but not of modern equality debates – would encourage those circles that uphold a Stone Age image of ‘woman as object’. Not healthy conditions for the millions of young American citizens and American girls who hope for an enlightened government.
3) Switzerland last
Trump knows and appreciates Switzerland. For example, in 2020 he traveled to the World Economic Forum in Davos. But this visit should not obscure the fact that his radical “America first” strategy would cause enormous damage to the Swiss economy.
His advisers are currently discussing the idea of a 10 percent tariff on all imported goods. The US has been the most important sales market for Swiss exports since 2021: we supply the Americans with 47 billion francs annually. This would end if Trump continued his isolationism. “Bad news” for all large Swiss companies and small and medium-sized businesses hoping for sustainable trade relations.
Trump is also likely to cause diplomatic headaches for Switzerland. Switzerland has been representing the interests of the Americans in Iran since 1980 because the two countries no longer want to talk directly to each other. Iran – an aggressive opponent of the US, both in Ukraine and the Middle East – would be anything but favorable to Trump. That meant a lot of extra work for the Swiss officials who tried to make compromises – of course at the expense of us taxpayers.
Source: Blick
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
