If the US forces me to choose between my two nationalities, I choose France and Europe | Alexander Hurst

"Just as Moreno seeks to bully me into choosing citizenship, the US is bullying Europe, trying to force it to pick between total submission to its erstwhile partner, or a break with it. It is now official US policy that Europe is facing civilisational erasure, and that the US will actively support far-right, ethnonationalist, neofascist parties hostile to the EU. Standing by historic alliances is out, protecting Elon Musk and his fellow techno-nihilist broligarchs is in as is reaping the Kremlin's praises for it."

"What should have been clear as early as November 2024 should, by now, be abundantly so. This version of the US is worse than simply not our friend: it is an actively hostile actor seeking to fracture European society in the same way that Russia sought to fracture British society by promoting Brexit, and US society by fuelling disinformation, Maga and Trump."

"Two decades ago, the philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas urged Europe to capitalise on the wave of popular opposition to the Iraq war to produce a new kind of European public sphere with a common sense of shared political fate and future. Only this kind of Europe, the pair argued, would be capable of rising to the challenge of defending cosmopolitanism and the rule of law."

The United States is pressuring Europe to choose between submission to US interests or breaking with it, while supporting far-right, ethnonationalist parties hostile to the EU. That policy promotes civilisational erasure and elevates techno-nihilist oligarchs and their platforms over historic alliances and commitments to the rule of law. The US approach mirrors Russian tactics that seek societal fracture through disinformation and political manipulation. European governments and institutions have responded with accommodation, backtracking and capitulation despite repeated insults and punitive measures. Reviving a pan-European public sphere and shared political fate is necessary to defend cosmopolitanism and the rule of law.

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