In a completely astounding display of dilettante incompetance, official US government messages inadvertently shared with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic and the whole world (Kremlin almost certainly included) lay bare the unvarnished truth about how US government officials Vance and Hegseth feel about (former?) European allies
Vice President JD Vance: "I just hate bailing Europe out again”.Yet, as Business Ukraine magazine points out:
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (now strenuously denying responsibility for the leak): "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”
Andrew Roth, 'Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe' Guardian 25 Mar 2025.
Europe was America's biggest export market in 2024. Meanwhile, Russia barely registered. Even accounting for sanctions, the difference could hardly be starker. Is trading the $450 billion European market (EU +UK) for the $0.5 billion Russian market really the art of the deal?
Interestingly (Australia and Canada excluded), most of the countries shown as major trade partners are those from which antiquities (licit and illcit) are reaching the US antiquities market.
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