It all came as a tale of the
\nunexpected. After eight years of Democratic presidency at the White House, the
\nRepublican camp surprisingly placed their bets on Donald Trump, which proved an
\ninspired choice, as Trump eventually won, in the wake of a campaign marred by
\ncontroversies and scandals.<\/p>\n
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Portrayed by her opponents as a person
\nof the system, Hillary Clinton had to answer questions about the way she had
\nreceived funding for the foundation she jointly owns with her husband, the
\nformer US president Bill Clinton. Also, Hillary had to answer for the way she reacted as a Secretary of State
\nwhen the US Consulate in Benghazi was attacked. Also as a Secretary of State,
\nHillary Clinton used a private email account, which triggered an FBI
\ninvestigation, but which eventually failed to find any real grounds for her
\nindictment. In the opposite camp, with no political experience and failing to
\nprove, in the three debates that brought together the presidential candidates,
\nthat he had the required knowledge on key issues of the state, Donald Trump
\nmade all sorts of controversial declarations throughout the campaign, which
\nmade all the difference for Hillary Clinton’s challenger. His main promise
\nconcerned the building of a wall along the Mexican border, to stop immigration.
\nAnother controversial proposal was that of temporarily denying Muslims access
\nto the US, a declaration Trump subsequently reconsidered, stating some of the
\ndetails needed rethinking. <\/p>\n
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Also, Trump was involved in a scandal
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For many, Trump’s victory was surprising,
<\/p>\n I can explain it as the
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No less important is the issue of
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According to political expert
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\nregarding women and the way he treated them.
\nNonetheless, shortly after his win was announced, Trump made an appeal
\nto unity and vowed to place Americans’ interest over and above anything else. He said: Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of
\ndivision, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and
\nindependents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as
\none united people. We have a great economic plan. We will double our growth and
\nhave the strongest economy anywhere in the world. At the same time, we will get
\nalong with all other nations willing to get along with us. I want to tell the
\nworld community that we will always put America’s interests first.<\/em> <\/p>\n
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\nall the more so as his challenger was credited with great chances of winning,
\nup to the very last minute. But how can we explain the way the Americans voted
\n? Here is foreign policy pundit Vladimir Socor attempting an answer:<\/p>\n
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\noutcome of the dissatisfaction of the American middle class, in particular of
\nthe white middle class, since the racial factor played a key role. This is how
\nI can explain Mr. Trump’s victory. For quite some time now, the middle class,
\nbut also the working class, that of industrial workers who traditionally made
\nthe Democrats’ electorate, have
\nswitched sides and joined the Republican camp. This trend of outsourcing the fixed
\ncapital invested in the USA, to countries where the workforce is a great deal cheaper, such as China, Mexico,
\nstates in South-East Asia or even Latin America had a devastating effect on the
\nmiddle class and the American working class. In this way, the traditional
\nAmerican workforce, highly-skilled in terms of technical competences and
\nwell-paid, ended up being thrown into some sort of common pot where they found
\nthemselves competing against the poorly-paid workforce of third-world
\ncountries, as a result of which the living standards in the US stalled and even
\ndeclined. The income gap between the well-to-do or the rich class and the
\nmiddle-class, the working class, has dramatically deepened. And that partly
\nexplains the massive transfer of votes from the Democrat to the Republican
\nParty <\/p>\n
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\nmigration. Vldimir Socor belives that the liberal circles, which have held sway
\nover politics and, more importantly, over US mass media in the past years, have
\novertly opted for the transformation of the USA and its population, into a some
\nsort of reflector of the world’s population. To put it differently, because of
\nuncontrolled migration, an acceleration process occurred, with the percentage
\nof white people across the USA diminishing, and the percentage of non-European
\npopulation increasing. Candidate Donald Trump specifically addressed such
\nworries of the vast majority of American voters and managed to voice the
\nanxiety of that emerging majority. These are in brief the factors that led to
\nTrump’s win, Vladimir Socor explained. Are there any changes likely to occur as
\nregards American security policy in Europe? Could the commitments made by the
\nUS at the NATO summit in Warsaw this summer possibly change? According to Vladimir Socor, the Pentagon
\nhas enough political leverage to influence the decisions the North Atlantic
\nAlliance may take, in order to carry through the initiatives adopted at the
\nsummit in Warsaw. On the other hand, a dysfunctional America cannot but make
\nthe West more vulnerable. <\/p>\n
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\nIulian Fota, what we need is an America capable of understanding Europe’s
\nspecific problems. A recent guest of one of Radio Romania’s programs, Fota has
\nsaid that president Obama had at least promised Europe support in its bid to
\nsort out the serious problems it was facing and it is extremely important that
\npresident Trump carries on with this course of action in the US foreign policy.
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