@joni_askola
France's Jordan Bardella perfectly proves that you cannot cheer for a wrecking ball and then act surprised when your own house takes damage. He and many other European far-right populists are desperately trying to distance themselves from Donald Trump, and it is a miserable look. These politicians spent years treating Trump like a hero, yet they are now throwing their hands up and claiming they do not support him the same way anymore. Bardella went from being a fan of the populist wave to claiming he is deeply panicked by Trump's erratic actions. Seeing him try to act like he was never really on board is pathetic. The truth is that Trump’s worldview leaves zero room for a prosperous or secure Europe. His reckless military stances and trade threats are engineered solely for his own base, leaving Europeans to clean up the wreckage. This sudden shock proves that Europe's populists either have no basic understanding of global power dynamics, or they actively worked against Europe’s interests on purpose. Sovereignists from different nations can never be true allies because their core interests will always violently collide. European populists thought they were part of a global club, but they were actually just useful idiots