The upheaval we are witnessing with Trumpism affects the United States, its national relations, and the domestic politics of its allies. It may seem strange that European leaders would criticize the President of the United States for his policies at home, in violation of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of a foreign country. However, while they do not suffer from his reforms at home, they are enduring the unspeakable consequences they provoke at home. These are only just beginning.
The period we are experiencing, with the rapprochement between the United States and Russia, is shaking up the global political scene. In doing so, all intergovernmental institutions are being disrupted. It appears that some of them responded to an unofficial objective, which everyone was careful not to state publicly, but which has not stood the test of time. Others were pursuing actions contrary to their official objectives, which was not a problem when all their members were in agreement, but seems unbearable today. Ultimately, multilateralism, as it was practiced, was anything but multilateral.
The G7 and NATO are already broken
The political coordination of the “West” was ensured by the G7, a series of meetings at all levels, which developed a common discourse. However, during the virtual meeting of heads of state and government on February 24, 2025, US President Donald Trump refused to sign the final communiqué and threatened his partners with leaving the G7 if they published it without his agreement [ 1 ] .
For the past month, G7 meetings have been taking place without the United States. Thus, during the virtual meeting of national security advisers on March 28, in which Ukraine was involved, the American Michael Waltz did not participate [ 2 ] .
It is clear that there is no longer any political coordination from the “West.” Consequently, there is no longer any military coordination either.
The French and British, initially in competition, then by mutual agreement and consultation, have launched a series of meetings of allied heads of state and government. They seek to ensure the continent’s security under the French and British nuclear umbrellas. But, as it stands, this idea cannot work because the problem has been poorly framed.
Indeed, for the moment, they interpret the events as a shift of the United States’ armies from Europe to the Far East, while President Trump seeks to put an end to the “American Empire”, both by ideology – he is a Jacksonian [ 3 ] – and by necessity – he is managing the debt crisis [ 4 ] -.
In the allies’ hypothesis, it would be enough to increase the military spending of each to compensate for the US withdrawal, whereas, if it is a question of the end of “American imperialism” as I maintain, it is not so much the budget of the Atlantic Alliance as its mode of organization that is in question. Washington no longer wishes to assume command of the whole, but simply to show the way.
However, while European states and their Canadian, Australian, Korean, and Japanese allies all obeyed the United States, they did not get along with each other. The history of the European continent is an endless series of rivalries, conflicts, and wars, with the sole exception of the Roman Empire. At the time, populations submitted to Rome to protect themselves from invasions. After its fall, the Vikings and Mongols pillaged the continent. The empires of Charlemagne, Charles V, Napoleon, or Hitler never knew peace. Today, no imminent danger is forcing Europeans to unite. Hence the invention of a supposed Russian threat, as if the “Red Army” were preparing to parade on the Champs-Élysées.
Two weeks ago, on March 19, the RAND Corporation, the US military-industrial lobby, suggested creating a “European Deterrence Council” with France, the United Kingdom and other key European states such as Germany and Poland [ 5 ] . However, strategic nuclear weapons cannot be a means of deterrence in the absence of strong conventional armies. However, none of the Europeans have any, the current French and British armies are not intended to defend their territories, but to project themselves into neo-colonial operations, mainly in Africa.
NATO’s enormous resources are compromised. All it takes is for the United States to stop sharing its own resources for nothing to work. Their battlefield intelligence is essential to the operation of the weapons they have purchased. Furthermore, if they do not wish to be involved in a conflict, they will have to block the use of the heavy weapons they have sold, from armored vehicles to aircraft. What was designed to contain the adventures of some allies is now stifling them all.
Moreover, the same problem will arise with the heavy weapons sold by France and the United Kingdom, which have also all been equipped with inhibitors. Paris and London will also have to block them when, after the defeat of Ukraine, Poland attempts to recover Eastern Galicia and Hungary recovers Transcarpathia. And what will become of NATO when Romania attempts to recover Moldova?
National and intergovernmental institutions reveal their true faces
At the helm of the Department of Economic Efficiency, Elon Musk is slimming down the US bureaucracy. Public opinion is listening as he reveals the Biden administration’s mismanagement. As a libertarian, Musk is content to shrink the federal government. But behind this fight, President Trump is destroying, piece by piece, all the budgets of “American imperialism.” He has revoked most of USAID, the so-called humanitarian aid agency that served as a front for the CIA. He is also attacking the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the two agencies that legally provide grants to extend the CIA as part of the “Five Eyes” (i.e., cooperation between Anglo-Saxon secret services). Every day, we discover new agencies with obscure activities that extended “American imperialism” around the world. The latest, the small US African Development Foundation, located near the White House, barred DOGE agents from entering its premises, which it had guarded with its own police officers. Its employees holed up like madmen so that no one could discover their purpose.
All NGOs and political parties around the world that the US federal government subsidized will have to find new sources of funding or close.
I can’t resist telling you how, among allies, this system is crumbling to its foundations. For example, the French NGO Reporters Without Borders, which claims to defend “the right of every human being to have access to free and reliable information,” is in reality a CIA agency. It refused to defend me when I was threatened and had to leave France. However, President Trump has just shut down propaganda radio and television stations. Without any qualms, Reporters Without Borders has joined forces with Voice of America employees to sue the US administration and demand the reinstatement of the station’s so-called “journalists.”
Or again, the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, linked to the French Socialist Party, has gradually allied itself with CIA pseudopods. Today, it employs, for example, Rudy Reichstadt, founder of Conspiracy Watch, already heavily subsidized by France. While claiming to be a supporter of the Munich Charter, which specifies the rights and responsibilities of journalists, this figure has described us, in nearly 300 articles, as “forgers,” without ever indicating how we have falsified reality.
The collapse of these Washington-subsidised NGOs and political parties corresponds to the awareness that the European Union is reproducing this system. This includes agencies comparable to USAID, USIP and NED. While all experts have long known that the EU subsidises NGOs to speak well of it and others to denigrate its opponents, the extent of its propaganda is only now being discovered. The Hungarian Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) has just published a study by Thomas Fazi on EU propaganda subsidies [ 6 ] .
We learn, for example, that the EU has launched programs to “combat the Eurosceptic discourses already spread by autocratic elites” (RevivEU) or to “denationalize European engagement” (EU TURN 2025); programs that add to the funding of cronies, such as the Robert Schuman Foundation to combat “Eurosceptic and national-populist mythology” or the European Policy Centre to speak well of international migration and ill of Russia.
We already knew, from studies by the European Centre for Law & Justice (ECLJ) [ 7 ] , that the European Court of Human Rights, far from being an impartial tribunal, was the preserve of the employees of the speculator George Soros. We now know that the European Union, far from being an administration that respects the diversity of its members, manipulates its budget against its “citizens”.
We have not yet reached the stage of slimming down the European Union and the Council of Europe, but there is an awareness of the corruption of the Brussels bureaucracy and the Strasbourg justice system.
Conclusion
The multilateralism we have known within the institutions of the “West,” the G7 and NATO, persists, but is paralyzed. These organizations will quickly disappear in their current form. To continue, they will have to radically change their form.
Similarly, the so-called “civil society,” far from being the emanation of citizens as a complement to democratic institutions, now appears to be riddled with hybrid organizations working behind the scenes for States, without the knowledge of their citizens and against them.
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[ 1 ] “ France, unable to cope with the shock of Donald Trump ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , February 25, 2025.
[ 2 ] “ Andriy Yermak Held a Conversation with National Security Advisors to G7 Leaders ”, Presidency of Ukraine , March 28, 2025.
[ 3 ] “Misinterpretations of the evolution of the United States”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , First part January 28, 2025, Second part February 4, 2025.
[ 4 ] “ Is Donald Trump managing the possible collapse of the “American empire”? ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , March 11, 2025.
[ 5 ] “ Nuclear Deterrence: Can Britain and France Take on America’s Role in Defending Europe Against Russian Aggression? », Rand Corporation , March, 19, 2025.
[ 6 ] The EU’s propaganda machine: How the EU funds NGOs to promote itself , Thomas Fazi, March 2025.
[ 7 ] NGOs and ECHR judges (2009-2019) and The Impartiality of the ECHR – Problems and Recommendations (2023), Grégor Puppinck, European Centre for Law and Justice.
