Now, Trump's victory is increasingly likely. Therefore, when Biden failed miserably in the TV debate, Europeans went to Trump's aides to inquire about it, and among them, the reporter of the British "Daily Mail" found a way to attend the luncheon of El Bridget Colby, a well-known anti-China hawk under Trump, and learned a lot about the inside story.
Trump belongs to the American right-winger, a nationalist, and pays attention to the supremacy of his own national interests, and NATO, G7, these organizations are all tools used by the United States to harvest allies. Frankly speaking, if Trump wins the US election, the damage to the Western world will probably be much greater than everyone thinks. So, in the Western world, almost all governments, with the exception of the United States, do not want Trump to win the election. But on the contrary, Trump's campaign is now gaining momentum.
So, after the reporter of the British "Daily Mail" attended Colby's luncheon and learned the inside story, the British began to fear. To sum it up in one sentence, what Colby is alluing, that is: China is far more important than Europe in Trump's policy.
First, Europe has been hoping that the United States will guarantee their security, but Colby said that this is unrealistic, and even if Russia attacks a European member of NATO, the United States will not necessarily send troops for three reasons:
First, Europe is not so important to the American people, Europeans should learn to defend themselves, for example, Britain can increase military spending to 3.5% of GDP, and even the whole of Europe should increase military spending to 5% of GDP, and the Americans cannot be expected to shed blood for Europe;
Second, the reason for the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict cannot be attributed to the United States, it is NATO's eastward expansion that led to the war between Russia and Ukraine, and NATO's eastward expansion is a reactive measure taken by Europeans in the face of Russia, and it is a problem of Europeans themselves, which should be solved by themselves;
Thirdly, for the United States, China is the only "serious threat" to American interests, so if Trump succeeds in returning, then all of Washington's military strategy will be focused on the plan of "Asian hegemony" against China. In other words, the United States needs to focus on addressing China, the "biggest threat," while the other secondary threats need to be addressed by America's allies themselves.
All in all, in Trump's view, Europe's troubles should not be left to the United States to solve, and the United States has more important things to do, which is to deal with China, so Europe needs to learn to solve its own problems.
According to the "Daily Mail", Colby's strong hint shocked the British military top brass at the scene, because, since World War II, the defense work of many European countries has gradually been outsourced to the US military, and some countries have maintained the existence of the army on the surface, but have almost no combat effectiveness. Even an established power like Britain has done a poor job of maintaining the combat effectiveness of its military. Someone has previously put forward a point of view, saying that the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army, placed in the whole of Europe, is estimated to be in the first echelon, and this sentence is not unreasonable. Therefore, it is difficult for Europe to deal with Russia on its own, so the inside story revealed by Colby will make the British military top brass afraid.
Of course, Trump is a businessman, and his philosophy of governance is similar to that of doing business, so the inside information of this luncheon may not be a bargaining tactic, but in any case, if Trump returns, the Western world will usher in a sea change.