[Opinion] Trump’s First 100 Days. The Ukraine Crisis Threatens Unpleasant Consequences For The U.S.

Monday Commentary: For Trump the problem is not Ukraine, it is China

Many of us have watched with incredulity as US President Donald Trump sailed through his first one hundred days in office. Domestically, the period has been characterised by the biggest shake-up of the American Government in history based on an old Trumpian maxim, that Washington was a “swamp”, and one suspects also a wish to settle scores with an establishment that in the past had not hesitated in challenging the Trumpian reading of America and…

Trump’s First 100 Days. The Ukraine Crisis Threatens Unpleasant Consequences For The U.S.

During his 2024 election campaign, Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. He later disavowed this statement. This promise sounded unrealistic, to say the least. The conflict had been brewing for decades. It was unrealistic to expect it to end in a day.

Populism : Trump's Political Response to Social Crisis

Often reduced to racism and protectionism by European public opinion, the notion of populism stems from a broad political history rooted in the United States. Although the concept shifts politically from right to left, a common denominator remains: a social unrest that emphasize a rejection of traditional political system and parties. A denorminator that Donald Trump, who took office in January 2025, took advantage of through his speeches and vi…