Posted on 12/13/2025 10:58:55 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
The US is engaging in “extreme rightwing tropes” with echoes of the 1930s and threatening “chilling” interference in European democracies, British MPs warned ministers on Thursday.
The House of Commons rounded on Donald Trump’s national security strategy, which stated that Europe was facing “civilisational erasure” and vowed to help the continent “correct its current trajectory and promote patriotic European parties”.
Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of parliament’s joint committee on the UK government’s national security strategy, said: “The United States consensus that has led the western world since the second world war appears shattered.
“The prospect of United States interference in the democratic politics of Europe, I believe, is chilling … The absence of condemnation for Russia is extraordinary, though not surprising.” He said the US pivot left the UK “especially vulnerable”.
Liam Byrne, another Labour MP and chair of the business select committee, said it was “not hard to see the rhymes with some extreme rightwing tropes which date back to the 1930s” and called for closer defence cooperation with Europe.
Keir Starmer and his ministers have been cautious not to criticise Trump and have sought to play down the implications of the strategy document.
insisted repeatedly on Thursday that the US “remains a strong, reliable and vital ally for the UK” and that ministers agreed with some aspects of the strategy, “like the importance of sustaining freedom and security”.
She told the Commons that the UK government did “take a different view” than the US “on some areas”, including on European strength and the value of multiculturalism.
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We would rather be ruled by communist’s and Muslims then be considered right wing.
United States interference in the democratic politics of Europe
Examples?
Labour is filled with extreme anti-Semitic tropes reminiscent of the 1930s.
There were no “right-wing tropes” in the 1930’s. Almost all the world had swung over to some place on the left wing, from the Fascism of of Italy and FDR’s New Deal, to the “kinder and gentler” form of socialism known as “National Socialism” as practiced in the Third Reich, to the “International Socialism” of the Soviet Union and many of the leading universities in the United States and Great Britain.
FDR was known to brag that “Some of my best friends are Communists.” Only the outbreak of the Second World War, and a complete rejection of groupthink in the years following the shaky peace after the defeat of Nazi Germany, shifted the US back to a more capitalistic economy. And even that had to be hampered by threats of outbreak of wars with the Soviet Empire for years after.
People arrested for posting the wrong meme or cartoon. Others arrested for calling a politician dumb or an idiot. Gestapo like internal spy agencies surveilling and spying on political opponents and political parties that the present regime doesn’t like. EU laws trying to impose censorship on American platforms to the point of suppressing freedom of speech in America while stifling the freedom of speech in Europe. America is the lone western country free of this totalitarian control over its people. The EU is the 21st century Empire of Evil and the people of Europe need to wake up to this fact.
And which group of continental elites ruined the world in the 30’s and cost us our men and our money? Whose grandsons and great grandsons are now trying to repeat history?
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Big Lie = Trump and his supporters are Nazis.
Yeah, yeah and before it was “Reagan and his supporters are Nazis”, and “Bush and his supporters are Nazis”
Same sh*t, different Presidents.
They, the Brits, are looking for someone to blame, and Donald Trump is so convenient. They know he’s right, or they are unwilling to accept demise at their own hands.
Walking London with a Kippah puts one at risk of being beaten to death.
Let’s do talk about “reminiscent of the 1930s”!
Double tongue from Europe. They don’t want Trump in Europe..but they do.
Of course, the “extreme right wing” arose to fight the influence of the Marxist crap coming out of Russia at the time.
Once again…Russia just brings out the worst in people.
The voters tried to right the ship with Brexit but the pols will have none of it.
Fascism is a leftist ideology. The only reason these communists call it right wing is because it has a nationalistic flavor unlike the globalist form of totalitarianism otherwise known as communism.
If it’s “right” it’s extreme. People on the Right believe in free markets, for example. According to Thomas Sowell the major objection to a free market economy is that it does this task so well: It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want.
But aren’t a lot of MPs out and out communists?
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