{"id":11292,"date":"2018-07-26T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:23:42","slug":"continental-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/continental-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"Continental Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>ccording to Pew International polls, Trump is now intensely disliked in Europe. His endless spats over European trade, the costs of NATO, and differing approaches to Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia acerbated already tense U.S.\u2013European relations. But Trump neither created European or transatlantic crises nor can be of much help in solving them. In part, they are Western in origin and to a degree shared by all Western allies, but mostly they are innate to Europe and self-induced.<\/p>\n<p>We often refer to the \u201cWest\u201d of nearly 1.5 billion people without really defining it or appreciating just how predominant Europe should be in all matters Western. In terms of population, the contemporary West consists of mainland Europe (circa 500 million \u2014 depending on how the borders of Europe are defined), the United States (325 million), the Anglosphere of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (130 million), and major Westernized, industrial, and democratic countries in Asia, most notably Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea (200 million), along perhaps with South American nations such as Argentina, Chile, and Brazil (265 million).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2018\/08\/13\/trump-europe-relations-rift-widens-continent-falls\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review According to Pew International polls, Trump is now intensely disliked in Europe. His endless spats over European trade, the costs of NATO, and differing approaches to Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia acerbated already tense U.S.\u2013European relations. But Trump neither created European or transatlantic crises nor can be of much help in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1135,1097,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2W8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11272,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-europe-gets-no-respect\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":0},"title":"Why Europe Gets No Respect","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution After the recent G-7 meeting, some European nations such as France and Germany expressed anger that their views were given short shrift by Donald Trump\u2014displaying fits of pique memorialized in a now infamous photo of standing G-7 leaders who were leaning into a surrounded\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11284,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/natos-challenge-is-germany-not-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":1},"title":"NATO\u2019s Challenge Is Germany, Not America","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review As the most populous and most affluent of European nations, Germany insidiously dominates Europe During the recent NATO summit meeting, a rumbustious Donald Trump tore off a thin scab of niceties to reveal a deep and old NATO wound \u2014 one that has predated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Germany&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Germany","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/germany\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9257,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-nato-worth-preserving\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":2},"title":"Is NATO worth preserving?","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Tribune Media Services Donald Trump recently ignited another controversy when he mused that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was obsolete. He hinted that it might no longer be worth the huge American investment.In typical Trump style, he hit a nerve, but he then offered few details\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10302,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/u-s-foreign-policy-and-the-transatlantic-relationship\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":3},"title":"U.S. Foreign Policy and the Transatlantic Relationship","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Strategika by Erik Jones Tuesday, June 20, 2017 Image credit:\u00a0Poster Collection, INT 280, Hoover Institution Archives. As candidate, Donald Trump made a number of comments about the utility of the North Atlantic Alliance and about the virtues of European integration that left many in the establishment scratching their heads. When\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Strategika&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Strategika","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/strategika\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10934,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/rethinking-the-geography-of-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":4},"title":"Rethinking the Geography of Power","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Where the seats of power are located matters. Given the populist revolt in the United States and Europe against the so-called global elite, it is time to refigure the geography of governmental and transnational power. Take the United Nations. Much of the international body\u2019s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;United Nations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"United Nations","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/united-nations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":922,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/europe-in-the-rearview-mirror\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":5},"title":"Europe in the Rearview Mirror","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 9, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The Dream and the Nightmare The European Union was always a paradox. Its existence was predicated entirely on the notion of German guilt, translating into massive cash transfers east and south. Just as Versailles was supposed to have restrained Germany, then a divided, postwar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The EU&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The EU","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/europe\/the-eu\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11295,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11292\/revisions\/11295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}