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Euronews posted the following:<\/p>\n

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Europeans more fearful than others of second Trump US presidency, says poll<\/h2>\n

15 January 2025<\/p>\n

US allies in Europe are the most pessimistic about the future global order under Donald Trump\u2019s leadership, a survey conducted for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and Oxford University\u2019s Europe report reveals today.<\/p>\n

In the EU and UK, the majority of people view a second Trump administration as detrimental to American citizens, their own countries, and the resolution of global conflicts. …<\/p>\n

Trump’s unpredictability on foreign policy, particularly in his approach to NATO and the war in Ukraine, is increasingly raising concerns across Europe about whether the US would support its transatlantic allies in the event of a conflict. …<\/p>\n

Any attempt by the EU to achieve unity in direct opposition to Trump could lead to major divisions both between and within the member states, the report said.<\/p>\n

Across the bloc, 21% of respondents view the United States as an ally that shares interests and values, 50% regard it as a necessary partner, while 3% consider it a rival in conflict. https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/01\/15\/europeans-more-fearful-than-others-of-second-trump-us-presidency-says-poll<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that only 21% of Europeans like the US, and half put up with it as a “necessary partner.” Consider that along with the following in our free online book Lost Tribes and Prophecies:\u00a0What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America?<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For decades, Washington has pushed the Europeans to spend more on their militaries. The U.S.A. needs to be careful about what it has been asking for. Although it is true that the U.S.A. contributes a vastly disproportionate share to NATO, the more the Europeans themselves spend, the more independent they will be about their spending and military priorities.<\/p>\n

Since the Bible says that Europe will have a \u201cgreat army\u201d (Daniel 11:25), we know Europe will end up with a great army. It will also end up with a substantial navy as the Bible says it will have \u201cmany ships\u201d (Daniel 11:40). Europe is prophesied be an amazingly marvelous military power that will surprise the world (Revelation 13:3-4).<\/p>\n

This will not end well for the U.S.A. or the other Israelitish nations. \u2026<\/p>\n

The U.S.A., itself, has repeatedly shown the Europeans that it does not trust them, yet scripture suggests it sometimes will trust them too much. According to the Bible, the time will come when the U.S.A. will find that continental Europe will be an enemy (cf. Isaiah 10:5-11) and not an ally (Ezekiel 23:4,9-10). The Bible warns:<\/p>\n

2<\/sup> All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies. (Lamentations 1:2)<\/p>\n

Europe will cooperate with the U.S.A. as long as it feels the relationship is beneficial, and then (as prophecy foretells) one day turn totally against the U.S.A. \u2026<\/p>\n

The King of the North\u00a0will deceitfully proclaim \u201cpeace and safety\u201d while plotting for the sudden destruction of those opposing him (1 Thessalonians 5:2\u20133). He will destroy the mighty American-British alliance.<\/p>\n

Because of not accepting and understanding biblical prophecies, many political and other leaders will be hoping for and believing in a false peace. The sudden destruction to come is likely to include a nuclear or other high tech attack, and could possibly happen in conjunction with a NATO training or other exercise that would catch the U.S.A. and its Anglo-Saxon-Celtic allies off guard (cf. Lamentations 1:1-2). Other nations are likely to also be involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, sometime after Europe no longer considers the USA a “necessary partner,” it is prophesied to attack and conquer the USA (cf. Daniel 11:39) and its British-descended allies (see also Isaiah 10:5-11).<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s re-emergence is causing fear in Europe–and fear is a powerful motivator. Europe came up with its own military organization called PESCO after Donald Trump’s first election. His re-election will encourage Europeans to take more militaristic steps.<\/p>\n

The following was written by a German historian named Tarik Cyril Amar:<\/p>\n

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Trump is a nightmare for the EU in more ways than one<\/h2>\n
With its submissiveness to the US and contempt for its president-elect, the bloc\u2019s set itself up for a perfect storm of punishment.<\/div>\n

14 December 2024<\/p>\n

For a man his age, incoming US president Donald Trump has a knack for cultivating a bad-boy image. Refreshingly direct to the point of rude honesty, or dishonesty, as the case may be, he has no time for polite circumlocution. His threats are harsh, his demands unvarnished, including toward Washington\u2019s so-called allies in Europe, which really are, at best, clients, and, more realistically, just vassals. In that spirit of candid, no-frills domination, Trump already has a long record of threatening NATO, which he sees \u2013 plausibly \u2013 as a scam in which European members fleece the US to free-ride on its insane (but that\u2019s a different story\u2026) military spending. …<\/p>\n

Even less noticed is the fact that the new old US president \u2013 and thus capo dei capi of the West \u2013 is not much kindlier disposed toward the EU. And yet there it is: Trump\u2019s frank, open, and long-standing dislike for that strange bureaucratic behemoth that is about as democratic as the former Soviet Union, less efficient than the Habsburg Empire, and so full of its global \u201cnorm-setting\u201d<\/em> mission that even American \u201cindispensability\u201d<\/em> looks oddly old-fashioned by comparison. https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/609361-trump-eu-nightmare-punishment\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is interesting that Tarik Amar thinks that the European Union, which basically considers itself the successor to things like the Habsburg Empire, is even less efficient than that. As far as its global \u201cnorm-setting\u201d<\/em> mission<\/strong> goes, I have warned for years that the EU wants to set standards for the world (e.g., see European dismisses US campaign rhetoric on trade, and wants the world to follow its standards<\/a> and BBC: What is the quantum apocalypse and should we be scared?; EUO: EU Commission wants to set world\u2019s first digital standards<\/a>).<\/p>\n

As far as the relationship of the EU to previous European empires, including the Habsburg dynasty, notice the following from the article The European Union and the Seven Kings of Revelation 17<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Herbert W. Armstrong wrote:<\/p>\n

“And in the days of these kings… .” It is here speaking of the ten toes, part of iron and part of brittle clay. This, by connecting the prophecy with Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 and 17, is referring to the new UNITED STATES OF EUROPE, which is now forming out of the European Common Market before your very eyes!<\/strong> Revelation 17:12 makes plain the detail that it shall be a union of ten KINGS OR KINGDOMS that (Rev. 17:8) shall resurrect the medieval “HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. …<\/p>\n

The seventh is now forming\u2014the last, final, brief resurrection of the “Holy Roman Empire” by ten European groups or nations.\u00a0 (Armstrong HW. 7 PROOFS OF GOD’S TRUE CHURCH: Part Four. Plain Truth, May 1979; that same exact quote is also in his 1985 book: The Bible Superstition or Authority? …and can you prove it?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, what formed out of the European Common Market (which officially was the EEU) was the European Union–it is not currently constituted as the group of ten nations or groups of nations. And while there will be a reorganization leading to the the seventh involving the ten kings which Revelation 17:12-13 shows, that has not yet happened. The EU “now is,” yet since it does not have an emperor or dictator running it, it also “is not.”<\/p>\n

When I asked him about the EU and the one that is but was not, CBCG’s Fred Coulter agreed that the one that “is” could be the European Union–and basically that “one is” should be seen as a contemporary, event, not something that the Apostle John would have known about in his time–but Fred also said this will tend to be cleared up as we get closer (telecom 5\/02\/24).<\/p>\n

Going back to Revelation 17, John continued with:<\/p>\n

9 \u201cHere is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. 10 There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time. 11 The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth, and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that the seventh beast per Revelation 17:10c only continues for a short time. That is 42 months per Revelation 13:5. But the sixth king, then, can be assumed to have been around for a lot longer than that. And the EU has been around for over three decades and over six if you point to the EEU\/Common Market as its start, and back to 1948 if you include Benelux. …<\/p>\n

The Bible is clear that there are seven kings, plus a related eighth, which were prophesied.<\/p>\n

The sixth is not Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

The sixth does not seem to be Benito Mussolini, for several reasons, including that Adolf Hitler was more in charge of Europe than he.<\/p>\n

Either the first five kings were ancient, with Rome being the sixth–though that seems to be in conflict with scripture, or the first five have to do with the church-state alliance known as the Holy Roman Empire (even when not called that).<\/p>\n

If they are related to the old Holy Roman Empire, it would seem in the 21st century, that the one that “is” which would be the sixth king, which also “is not,” could very well point to the European Union.<\/p>\n

People of the 21st century would better relate with the EU being the one that “is” as opposed to Benito Mussolini of 80 years ago.<\/p>\n

The EU is not, however, the seventh king–but the EU is setting the stage for the coming reorganizations of Revelation 17:12-13.<\/p>\n

Chart of Kings\/Dynasties of the Revival of Rome as the \u2018Holy Roman Empire\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Kingdom with a relationship to a type of \u2018Holy Roman Empire\u2019 <\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0Date(s) of Reign<\/strong><\/td>\nNumber in Revelation 17:10<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Justinian’s Imperial Restoration<\/td>\n554 – c. 797<\/td>\n\n

1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Charlemagne’s Frankish Kingdom<\/td>\n800 -c. 905<\/td>\n\n

2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Otto the Great of the ‘Holy Roman Empire’<\/td>\n955 – c. 1137<\/td>\n\n

3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Hohenstaufen dynasty<\/td>\n1138 – 1268<\/td>\n\n

4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Habsburg dynasty;
\nRemnant until Otto formally gave up title in 1958<\/td>\n		1274 – 1806
\n1806 – 1958<\/td>\n		\n

5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

European Economic Union\/
\nEuropean Union<\/td>\n		1958 – 1993
\n1993 – Present<\/td>\n		\n

6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Final King of the North Beast<\/td>\nFuture for 42 months<\/td>\n\n

7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The seventh king will rise up soon.<\/p>\n

That religiously aligned leader, who will be supported by the final Antichrist, is prophesied to rise up in Europe.<\/p>\n

He will be the Beast of the Sea.<\/p>\n

He will be the seventh.<\/p>\n

The ground work for his rise is being set by the European Union, whether or not it can be definitively considered as the sixth king–it certainly now is and looks to fit the prophecies in the Book of Revelation.<\/p>\n

Which means that the end of this age is getting near.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a link to a related sermon video:European Union & 7 Kings of Revelation 17:10<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Getting back to Tarik Amar, his article also has the following:<\/p>\n

The Russian leadership does not merely carefully watch Trump, as you would expect. It also sends back calibrated pings that signal cautious appreciation of his overtures,\u00a0as recently over his criticism of firing Western missiles at Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hence, nightmare number one for the EU: Trump is serious about ending US support for the failed project of inflicting a geopolitical demotion on Russia via a proxy war in Ukraine. That will leave not only the regime of Ukraine\u2019s past-use-by-date leader Vladimir Zelensky high and dry but remaining fanatics in the EU as well. In the best-case scenario, the US will leave the European vassals<\/a> with the cost of the postwar, whatever shape that may take. Trump has already said as much. In the worst-case scenario, EU elites could try going it alone. That is, worst-case for them, in every (un)imaginable way: economically, politically, and yes, militarily, too. …<\/p>\n

Then, nightmare number two, there is the economy. The US-EU relationship is the single largest trade connection in the world, worth about $11 trillion per year<\/a>. That, you may think, constitutes a lot of common interest and thus reasons for treating each other if not gently then, at least, cautiously. Nope, that\u2019s not how this works, because the relationship is lopsided, and Trump is furious about it. For him, the EU\u2019s trade surplus with the US is yet another way in which shifty Europeans have been milking America. His weapon of choice to retaliate and rectify the situation are, of course, tariffs, the higher the better. Even before his re-election, Goldman Sachs warned that his rule\u00a0could cost the EU as a whole a full percent<\/a>\u00a0of GDP. And yes, that\u2019s a lot,\u00a0especially for a continent already largely economically depressed<\/a>, demographically declining, and with badly squeezed public finances. …<\/p>\n

EU\u2019s wannabe despot Ursula von der Leyen. Building her own power grab \u2013 like Stalin, as it happens \u2013 on a mix of executive apparat overreach, crony networking, and ideological bigotry, she has made one serious mistake that may cost her dearly: She has cozied up so shamelessly to the outgoing Biden administration that, serious rumor has it, Trump cannot stand her<\/a>. …<\/p>\n

Even if Trump condescends to accepting such tributes from his European subjects, he will never lose sight of the one thing that really interests him (apart from his own money, power, and fame): American advantage. Whatever the Europeans will offer and however low they will kowtow, in the end, any deal will be good only for one side, the US. 12\/14\/24 https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/609361-trump-eu-nightmare-punishment\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Others have voiced concerns about Donald Trump and his potential impact on the European Union.<\/p>\n

For example, last month a reader sent me a link to a video, which I watched, titled, Trump wants to ‘aggressively’ spread Brexit throughout Europe | Yanis Varoufakis<\/em> 11\/13\/24 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GhCnvVinnGQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe has an agenda\u2026 essentially to make Brexit spread all over the European continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump will apply \u201caggressive actions\u201d to the European Union as he sees it as \u201ca clear present danger to the United States\u201d, says former Greek finance minister @YanisVaroufakis<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/IRjpeK6vzm<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Times Radio (@TimesRadio) November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n