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Throughout your complete 90 minute debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, I solely heard the phrases “Europe” and “Ukraine” talked about 4 occasions.
Trump repeated his boast about forcing European nations to pay their “justifiable share” to NATO; Harris repeated the time-worn Democratic Social gathering pledge that America will stand by its allies “because it at all times ought to, as a pacesetter upholding worldwide values and norms.”
That was all. Except for Trump describing Viktor Orbán as a “powerful individual… sensible” and the candidates jousting over who might stand as much as Putin, there was no point out of Russia’s menace to Europe, or of world warming – a subject that the EU appears to treat with much more gravitas than the Biden White Home, and definitely greater than Trump.
The very fact is that over the previous 50 years – and extra lately as a consequence of giant waves of immigration – the US populace has grown much less European, and significantly much less taken with Europe.
Demographically, the inhabitants has modified radically over the previous half-century. Whereas first-generation immigrants to the US accounted for six% of the inhabitants fifty years in the past, now they complete over 14%.
In line with a 2017 research “Individuals are extra racially and ethnically various” and “the U.S. is projected to be much more various within the coming many years. By 2055, the U.S. won’t have a single racial or ethnic majority”.
