Former President Donald Trump will cause chaos if elected to a second term, said The Atlantic's Anne Applebaum on CNN Monday morning — and not just in the U.S. government, where he has plans to reshape the entire federal government into a loyalty cult, but to the entire international order around the globe.
This comes following a dire warning from the same publication about what another Trump presidency could mean.
"When you talk to officials in Europe, when you talk to U.S. allies around the world, how are they preparing for this moment?" asked anchor Phil Mattingly.
"So the Europeans know this is coming, and they have known for a long time," said Applebaum. "It's almost as if they're in a kind of sleepwalking, you know, it can't really happen, we don't really think it will happen."
But that is now changing, she continued, and "it's slowly beginning to dawn on them that this could be real."
One of the big pivotal issues here is Ukraine, she continued, where Europe has committed about as much overall military and financial support as the U.S. has to guard Russian aggression.
Applebaum argued that the continent would struggle to take the load themselves if Trump cuts off Ukraine, as he has been hinting he would. Additionally, Applebaum continued, East Asian U.S. allies could be left in the lurch: "If Trump would abandon Ukraine, would he save Taiwan? Would he save South Korea?"
The upshot, said Applebaum, is that "Everywhere in the world where the U.S. has any interest or any stakes ... everywhere around the world, there will be an immediate crisis, an immediate sense the U.S. isn't coming, we need to adjust and change our policies."
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