Ok, this is first time I decided to write about something related to politics but what's happening in these days is really making me want to get off my chest the frustration and disgust I feel not only for the new US president's decisions but also implications and impacts his actions have on us Europeans. This blog is meant as both a way to sublime all negative emotions I am bottling up during these days and to give an outsider perspective on US people who might stumble across this blog. I know that a good chunk of US population think only about their inner garden and don't think about consequences of their actions (voting for Trump, and despite I may respect your decision I still think that a better Republican could have been chosen instead of a criminal like him), I would still like to show a perspective from the outside, from someone who is not US. So I do apologize in advance if this post will be long, full of pessimism and negativity, but I really need to get this off my chest.

The blog will have both personal opinions and reported facts, it's a mix because my feelings are a mix and I need to sublime in a more ordered way.

The average US citizen thinks about benefits in their own country and it's not a bad thing per se but it's important to know that a country like US can have a huge impact and influence since we sadly live in a US-ruled world when it comes to "Western" sphere, and the world doesn't revolve around them. We are interconnected and the action of an influencing country impacts the world, and the first thing that will be definitely impacted will be the environment and climate.

You already know that President Trump signed an executive order Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the U.S. from its closest allies. The pact is aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels or, failing that, keeping temperatures at least well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. also signed a letter to the United Nations indicating his intention to withdraw from the 2015 agreement, which allows nations to provide targets to cut their own emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Those targets are supposed to become more stringent over time, with countries facing a February 2025 deadline for new individual plans.

I think it's quite clear how the impacts of the climate crisis are worsening. The terrible wildfires in Los Angeles are the clear reminder that US people, like everyone else, are affected by worsening climate change and the will to withdraw from Paris climate agreement and the will to go back to oil, and drills will only worsen this tragic situation. Right now the world is now long-term 1.3°C above mid-1800s temperatures. Although in the scientific literature there is overwhelming scientific consensus that global surface temperatures have increased in recent decades and that the trend is caused by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases, neither Trump nor any of the department heads he has appointed believe that global warming is human-related.

20201211 Billion dollar events related to climate change - U.S. -en.svg by RCraig09, 12 December 2020 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

This graph of number billion-dollar climate-related events in the United States, and annual costs of those events, based on NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. You can clearly see the growing numbers of weather and climate-related events costing at least a billion dollars which exceed the 1980–2019 inflation-adjusted average of 6.6 such events(1). Following Trump's first election large amounts of climate information from the EPA website was altered or removed. There was widespread concern among environmentalists and scientists and a coalition of scientific and academic groups began to make copies of the EPA web pages before they were deleted. According to the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative which tracks changes to government websites under the Trump administration, over 200 web pages providing climate information were omitted during Trump's first year in office. Other pages were altered to remove mentions of climate and climate change(2). This is unacceptable and concerning to say the least and now that he has Musk and other big tech companies COEs on his side, science and correct information will suffer deep blows in showing how the world will only accelerate its worsening.

And remember what he said during the 2020 California wildfires on September 13th, 2020:

It'll start getting cooler. You just watch. ... I don't think science knows, actually.

And speaking on the scientific front, another one was hit by Trump's decisions: US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

here the official statement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/

The United States is by far the WHO's biggest financial backer, contributing around 18% of its overall funding. WHO's most recent two-year budget, for 2024-2025, was $6.8 billion.

The U.S. departure will likely put at risk programs across the organization, according to several experts both inside and outside the WHO, notably those tackling tuberculosis, the world’s biggest infectious disease killer, as well as HIV/AIDS and other health emergencies. Under U.S. law, leaving the WHO requires a one-year notice period, and the payment of any outstanding fees.

Aaaaannnd this decision has already convincing an Italian politician, the Northern League party politician, Claudio Borghi to suggest the same for Italy: withdrawing from WHO. This is the Italian article:

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2025/01/21/news/claudio_borghi_oms-18231318/

I will translate some points:

"The Lega MP comments on the news with a post on X. On the same social network he had listed a series of criticisms of the organization: the very high costs, the ties with Bill Gates, the uselessness. Claudio Borghi is rooting for Donald Trump and his decision to sign an executive order that will allow the United States to leave the World Health Organization. The Lega Nord member hopes that the president's choice will lead the way, dragging Italy towards the same fate. "We must do it right away," he writes on X, in a message accompanied by the news of the US-WHO divorce.

In another more verbose tweet, dating back to last year, Borghi had explained the reasons why he criticizes the work of the Organization, with a ten-point list, obtaining over 2 and a half million views. "The WHO is useless," we read at the beginning of the list, "It made sense in 1948 when information on epidemics arrived by telegraph. Now we are in an infodemic. During Covid, the WHO did not provide a single piece of useful information. If it is not useful for that, then evidently its real function is another now."

Most of you don't know but this political party is a combination of political federalism, fiscal federalism, regionalism and defense of northern Italian traditions whose historical goal is to transform Italy into a federated state, letting Padania keep more tax revenues collected there under a regime of fiscal federalism, and it's racists against Southern Italy. This shitty party has also anti-vax positions....

I really hope this fascist government ignores this but I am still very worried. Yes, I called the government of the country I currently live in fascist and not as insult but as a fact because the main party that rules this country, Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia), traces its origins in National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale) a national conservative political party in Italy that was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini. The party had moderated its policies over its last decades and claimed finally to have distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as post-fascismo, during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995. Honestly looking at their actions and evolution within Brothers of Italy I still see elements of neo-fascism, so fuck you from the bottom of my heart! I have to be honest thought that this party is not direct predecessor. FdI was established by former AN members, who had been part of the PdL (The People of Freedom or Il Popolo delle Libertà) in 2008–2012, and is the current bearer of AN's symbol under the authorization of the National Alliance Foundation.

And speaking of influences done by US to Italy now that Musk and Trump have full power, I can't help but mention the deal with Starlink. Italian government has already made a deal with Musk and his Starlink satellites. Meloni said Italy may ( aka Italy will use it) employ Elon Musk's Starlink service to provide encrypted satellite communications to link its military contingents around the world because there is "no public alternative." Italy is in talks with Starlink, part of Musk's SpaceX aerospace business, to use its 6,700 satellite constellation in a reported five-year, €1.5 billion ($1.55 billion) deal. How lovely that this fascist government doesn't seem to find funds for healthcare, research, environment and youth people but magically can waste them in this shit that I find highly dangerous for our national security. And this deal was done in combination with another fact that touched Italy directly: Sala case. The Italian journalist was released soon after Elon Musk met with an Iranian ambassador:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/world/middleeast/musk-italy-iran-prisoner-exchange.html

So basically Italy sold out its national security to free a journalist, and despite I am happy she could came back, I don't like at all that a greater good (national security) was sacrificed to free a single individual when you could pay high sums of money to free her without putting at risk the country's national security. And I am not the only one who is deeply concerned about this.

So basically Italy is currently in advanced negotiations with Musk's SpaceX company deal to provide encrypted telecommunications services via its Starlink satellite internet provider. Namrata Goswami, an independent space policy scholar, thinks this type of deal will become "the new normal" because Starlink provides fast and reliable satellite internet and secure telecommunications with true global reach.

"So what governments look for, especially in terms of, say, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, communication, those communications are supposedly more encrypted and secure based on what SpaceX is offering," she told.

Yet Elon Musk's courting of Meloni could see him extend his already considerable influence in the sector of what are known as low Earth orbit satellites, which orbit Earth at an altitude of 2,000 km or less. Satellites in that orbit are very useful for telecommunications and internet provision. Much of its internet provision is for businesses and consumers. However, some national governments also use Starlink for their own communications and for military applications. The US Department of Defense avails of a specific service called Starshield, designed for some government and military agencies. Ukraine has also made extensive use of the Starlink service during the war with Russia.

However, a deal for SpaceX to provide a major EU government with communications services would be a new departure. It could also bring Italy into conflict with the EU's own space strategy. The European Commission signed the contract to establish IRIS², a plan to place 260 of its own satellites in both low and medium Earth orbit by 2030. The idea is that those satellites will provide EU member states with secure telecommunications. There are no EU rules prohibiting EU governments from using certain satellite or internet services, including Starlink. The spokesperson for the European Commission made it clear that Italy could proceed with Starlink if it so wished but it emphasized the country's strong role in the establishment of IRIS². "On a purported agreement between Italy and Starlink, the Commission does not comment as a matter of principle on discussions of this kind," the spokesperson said. Italy is a sovereign state taking sovereign decisions. Incidentally, Italy is poised to be hosting one of the three IRIS² control centres."

As for Musk and concerns over how his doing deals with governments such as Italy could impact global geopolitical security, Namrata Goswami says that his growing involvement in politics points to a clear risk. She sees a potential issue in the possibility of him having the power to limit a government or military's use of Starlink, if he disagrees with them politically.

"There has to be some security that they cannot just cut off a particular service just because they do not like a particular nation's policies," she says. "That's my concern, because he's so powerful that he might want to influence his own company's decision of who they support and who they don't."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/italian-interest-in-starlink-strikes-at-the-heart-of-european-space-solidarity/

Opposition parties, primarily the Democratic Party (PD), have voiced significant apprehension about the deal, arguing that entrusting Italy’s sensitive government and military communications to a foreign private entity like SpaceX raises serious concerns about national security and sovereignty. One PD senator has described this move as an “unacceptable sell-out of national sovereignty”, highlighting the danger of relying on a company owned by Musk, who is known for his controversial political stances and close ties to Right-wing figures internationally. The fear is that sensitive data could potentially be at risk if not strictly managed under Italian or European control. Critics of the deal argue that Italy should foster its own technological capabilities or support the European Union’s satellite programs like Iris, set to launch in 2029, rather than outsourcing to a US-based company.

There’s also concern over the economic implications of the deal. Critics within the PD suggest that this partnership might sideline local and European companies, thereby affecting job opportunities within Italy’s telecom sector. The opposition has pointed out that Starlink’s services directly compete with local telecom operators, potentially leading to market monopolisation by SpaceX. This could have long-term negative effects on Italy’s telecommunications industry, reducing the incentive for local innovation and investment:

We have already seen how Twitter went after Musk bought it, and it seems he wants to own TikTok too (now I start to think why it was unbanned in US after Trump became president....but it's just a personal opinion, nothing more). Never let single, ultra rich billionaire take care of political stuff and stuff in general, it never ends well....

Don't forget that this junkie has shown support for the far-right, disgusting, shitty, revolting part AfD.

He wrote that the nationalist party was "the last spark of hope for the country," which he claimed was teetering on the brink of "economic and cultural collapse," and that only the AfD could revive the German economy and prevent a loss of identity through a "controlled immigration policy."

Since you support this party, you should know it posted one-way plane tickets through the letterbox of immigrants, right? I bet not, considering your abyssal ignorance on how EU works (and the world in general). Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is under investigation by the police after people living in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe found the flyers in the mail. They feature an AfD logo, a QR code linking to the website of the party’s local chapter and the purported destination of a “safe country of origin”, with a tagline below that reads: “Only remigration can still save Germany.” (read remigration as deportation since it's a pathetic euphemistic term to soften the semantic burden "deportation" has).

And this is the shitty fake ticket they sent to these people:

from: https://de.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/14/afd-abschiebetickets-bundestagswahl

When yesterday I watched this on television I felt physically and emotionally hurt by seeing this disgusting piece of crap and I thought how this can also damage the psyche of some of these people who struggles to integrate and interact with German social web. Image to be an immigrant who fled the country to change your life for the better, you studied hard to master the language to an intermediate level (to become a German citizen, one of requirements is reaching level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages), you also studied to pass the naturalisation test, you lived for at least 5 years, just to find in your letterbox this racist shit, how would you feel? If you know more about German citizenship, here the article: https://www.germany-visa.org/german-citizenship/

But Musk added:

"To those who condemn the AfD as extremist, I say: Don't let the label attached to it put you off," Musk wrote. "The portrayal of the AfD as right-wing extremist is clearly false, considering that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner from Sri Lanka! Does that sound like Hitler to you? Please!"

LMAO, this last sentence is similar to the same bs I hear from homophobic and racist people to justify their discriminatory views under a sugarcoated sentence" I have lots of [INSERT MINORITY GROUP/SEXUAL ORIENTATION HERE]...."

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed concern over Elon Musk's support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, weeks before the nation's snap election next month. Scholz, in an interview with Stern magazine said while he was not fazed by the US tech billionaire's attacks on him and other German politicians, Musk's endorsement of the far-right party was much more worrying. Despite I didn't appreciate Musk attacked and insulted Scholz and the other German politicians (if you try to do the same with Musk on Twitter, let's see how long your account will survive, yes I call it Twitter and not that unholy X, get over it, after all your president has already signed an executive order on Monday requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on official maps so why can't I keep calling Twitter as Twitter), I share Scholz's same worries.

Because of Musk's constant meddling on European affairs the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has called on the European Commission to take tougher action against US billionaire Elon Musk. According to him, the European Commission should use its current legislation much more strictly.

“Either the European Commission applies with the greatest firmness the laws that exist to protect our unique space or it does not and in that case it should think about giving the capacity to do so back to the member states of the European Union, to France,” he said. I totally support Barrot's stance. I am honestly sick of his constant meddling in European political affairs and now that he is part of the Trumpian establishment, I consider it politically and morally unacceptable and a violation of national sovereignty by the United States. If the European Union did the same to the United States I want to see how they would react...seriously as European I say who the fuck do you think you are to decide to heavily influence the politics of foreign countries?

Some time ago, French President Emmanuel Macron hinted at Musk's interference in European politics. During his speech to French ambassadors, Macron did not directly mention Musk's name but said at the time that nobody could have imagined 10 years ago that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and directly interfere in elections, particularly in Germany. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Har Støre also expressed concern about Musk's interference in politics.

If Musk is attacking (or trying to attack) Germany from a political point of view by supporting (and maybe even funding it secretly) far-right party AfD, on the other hand Trump wants to attack Germany on the economic side. The German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck emphasized that after Trump returns to the US presidency, Germany will be the main target of new trade tariffs due to its trade surplus with the United States. The politician noted that possible restrictions against the entire EU would hit the German economy first. At the same time, Habeck emphasized that the EU is ready to fight back, but Germany must act together with its European partners to strengthen its position.

"You can be pretty sure that the tariffs that he might want to impose will be targeted in such a way that they will particularly hit the German economy... No matter what the next German government wants to do, it must do it in a European way," Habeck said. I totally agree with him. Considering that Italy has ties with Germany too when it comes to car industry, this will hit Italy as well.

It's also funny how Trump issued a mass pardon of approximately 1,500 January 6 rioters, but did you know that on January 21, 2025 Trump granted Ross Ulbricht a full and unconditional pardon? Who is Ross Ulbricht? He is the creator and founder of darknet market website Silk Road the infamous online black market and the first modern darknet market known for its illegal drug marketplace, among other illegal and legal product listings.

As Trump put it in a Truth Social post: "in honor of [his mother Lyn Ulbricht], and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross." He said "the scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern-day weaponization of government against me." (damn, I can hear Trump's voice when citing his words...)

A nice example of love for justice and double standards: if you are a Mexican drug cartel you are a terrorist organization, if you create a darknet market to sell and buy illegal stuff like drugs you get pardoned, it doesn't matter if you sold drug, just like drug cartels, if you support someone like Trump so much you get rewarded. A fine example of moral integrity for a country who wants to think to be the land of freedom, well at least Trump kept his promise I will give him that....

Trump is also known to spew false statements in public remarks, this is a graph showing false or misleading claims(3) made by Donald Trump (we truly live in a post-truth society):

2017- Donald Trump veracity - composite graph.png by RCraig09, 23 February 2020 is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

Some of Trump's falsehoods were inconsequential, such as his repeated claim of the "biggest inaugural crowd ever"(4). Others had more far-reaching effects, such as his promotion of antimalarial drugs as an unproven treatment for COVID-19, causing a U.S. shortage of these drugs and panic-buying in Africa and South Asia(5).

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I personally think that this is all an attack on the liberal democracies of Europe, and the Italian government is used as a Trojan horse to weaken EU. Meloni has the same Trump's forma mentis so it's not surprising the apparent privileged position Italy has towards US, but she didn't understood that Trump is only using her for his personal gain (you fascist dumbfuck!). So this election will affect you US people who didn't want any of this whether you voted Democrat or Republican (if you didn't want someone like Trump) but it will also affect those who passionately wanted it, since one like Trump gives zero fucks to them. But it will affect the world too, Europe being the first unless she really starts to act unitedly as a political European Union. As European I am deeply worried but at the same time I think Trump might be beneficial for us IF and ONLY IF we stay united, sanction figures like Musk and create laws that protect our autonomy as political entity and economy.

If you reached the end of this very long blog, I thank you. I don't think I will write other politcal-themed blogs unless I really want to get something off my chest like in this case or for historical purposes. Thank you for reading, stay safe and to all US citizens who share same worries as mine, be ready to fight for your right, embrace yourselves because winter is coming. See you next time.

References and footnotes

(1) Smith, Adam B.; NOAA National Centers For Environmental Information (December 2020). "Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters: Overview / 2020 in Progress". NCDC.NOAA. National Centers for Environmental Information (NCDC, part of NOAA). doi:10.25921/stkw-7w73

(2) "EPA chief Scott Pruitt personally monitored removal of climate info from website". CBS News. February 2, 2018. Archived

(3) Kessler, Glenn; Kelly, Meg; Rizzo, Salvador; Lee, Michelle Ye Hee (January 20, 2021). "In four years, President Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims". The Washington Post

(4) Finnegan, Michael (September 25, 2016). "Scope of Trump's falsehoods unprecedented for a modern presidential candidate". Los Angeles Times.

(5) Rowland, Christopher (March 23, 2020). "As Trump touts an unproven coronavirus treatment, supplies evaporate for patients who need those drugs". The Washington Post.