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Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-00:29

The American campaign smiles at

Donald Trump

, whose possible victory in November constitutes a serious risk for the fight for freedoms and the rule of law that Western democracies wage against autocracies; especially against Russia. This week, prosecutor

Robert Hur

has conveniently fueled the former president's strategy, based on undermining the image of Joe Biden. Hur, a Republican and former top Trump official, has questioned Biden's mental faculties -

an "agr

nice old man with good intentions and a bad memory »-

, while exonerating him of stealing secret papers from the White House. His report has been a legal defense but, at the same time, a humiliating political condemnation. The Democrat has obvious weaknesses that Trump successfully exploits.

The political storm comes at a critical moment, after the Republican blockade in the Senate on aid to kyiv, which Trump promises to suspend completely to "end the war in 24 hours." His return to the Presidency would therefore deal an enormous blow to the Western strategy in Ukraine and to the security of Europe, immersed for two years in a war that crudely embodies

the existential struggle between liberal democracy and the autocratic model that China and Russia want to impose.

The threat has once again been highlighted in Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Vladimir Putin. The journalist, fired from Fox for falsely claiming that Trump had been a victim of electoral fraud in 2020, has become a spokesperson for the global populist right. From Viktor Orban to Javier Milei, passing through Santiago Abascal, whom he accompanied in the protests against Ferraz, have paraded through his microphones. At the interview,

Putin once again resorted to historical distortions to justify the invasion of Ukraine,

although he ruled out expanding that offensive to NATO's eastern flank. His words have not reassured countries like Poland or Finland, where more and more voices warn of the danger of Russia advancing on Europe. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has set a date for it: three to five years.

Moscow poses a major threat to Europe, which fears a very difficult scenario if Trump, more sympathetic to Putin than to NATO, wins a second term. The moment is critical. The Union is obliged to reinforce its military aid to kyiv, and also to firmly combat the Kremlin's interference in Europe.

Especially in the face of the June elections, in which extremist parties, close to Russia, aspire to grow strongly

. The recent resolution on Putin's tentacles - including the

processes

- has portrayed the MEPs in two blocs: those sympathetic to Putin and those opposed to him; with the significant absence of the Vox leader

Jorge Buxade

. The EU has a lot at stake: it is a duel between freedom and authoritarianism.

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