Trump has threatened massive tariffs on European countries should they resist his ambitions, and then somewhat rowed back these threats. And more importantly, will this moment finally expose Europe’s long-standing hypocrisy on the global stage? Yet, even in that moment of supposed moral awakening, Europe’s principles were flexible. This provoked a sharp response from India — Europe does not get to decide the moral compass of the rest of the world. For years, Europe has operated under the comforting delusion that Europe’s problems are the world’s problems, but the world’s problems are not necessarily Europe’s problem.

Source: Irish Examiner January 28, 2026 01:01 UTC