The American spoke about Trump's strategy towards the EU

Andrei Kortunov, the scientific director of the Russian International Affairs Council, noted in an interview with Izvestia that there are several dimensions to this conflict between Elon Musk and the European Commission.

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"Donald Trump's team sees the European Union as one of Washington's main economic competitors. The American leader has repeatedly said that the European Union is more dangerous for the United States than Russia and China," the political scientist explained.

According to him, the US president's desire to weaken the European Union and get concessions from it is a very long—term strategy of the Trump administration.

"It manifests itself in trade, political relations, and investment policy. Trump would like European resources, European technologies, European brains and money to be served primarily by the United States," the expert noted.

The specialist emphasized that this installation is quite stable.

"Ideologues like Jay Dee Vance and, to some extent, Elon Musk, despite their not entirely identical positions, do not like the European Union, they consider it a bureaucratic monster that lives by its own laws, where cosmopolitan elites have long been divorced from the peoples they supposedly represent, and they make questionable decisions, which generally lead to the decline of Europe," the analyst believes.

Kortunov recalled the scandal that occurred at the Munich Security Conference.

"The Vice President of the United States made an unflattering criticism of the European Union, and accused the Europeans of moving away from democracy, that they were violating the very principles they were supposed to stand for. And now we see that Musk actually repeats this argument, saying that the European Union, in general, has lost those qualities that made it strong, which allowed us to hope for the future of the European project," the political scientist said.

On December 5, the European Commission (EC) fined the social network X, which belongs to Musk, 120 million euros for violating the Digital Services Act. After that, the businessman called Europe the fourth Reich, and also called for "dissolving the EU and returning power to the people."

The mask was supported by the Vice President of the United States, J. D. Vance. He said that the EU should support freedom of speech, and not attack American companies "because of nonsense."

Read the details of the international scandal in the Izvestia article.

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