Week 4 [14.11-20.11.2016] Is the world going to end now?

Is the world going to end now? 

2016 has been a year of improbable and even unthinkable political changes actually taking place. I’m not referring to our own backyard, that’s a whole different story, but with Brexit, President Trump and a possibility of Le Pen winning next French elections millions of people feel concerned or even go into full panic mode. Is there a reason to? Are those genuine threats or are we being carried away? Let’s give it a thought.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Europes-Far-Right-Emboldened-by-Trumps-Triumph-20161109-0007.html

Europe is falling apart!

Or at least that is what one might think having read first reactions to Britons deciding to leave the EU. Truth be told I was shocked myself. Plenty of people acknowledged the rise of cheap populism, but still wanted to believe reason would prevail. Well, it did not.  That brought on the first panic attack of centrist and liberal media suggesting the EU is about to fall apart. The truth is the EU is in a deep crisis. Before we even managed to properly recover from economic setback we were struck by migration crisis. Plenty of people consider EU unable to deal with the problems and Euroscepticism is on the rise. On that background Brexit might seem as a big step towards it’s decomposition. Is it really though? All those problems and Brexit itself have triggered not only anti-european movements. It has also strengthened parties in favor of stronger integration, ones that look what was the cause of crises and EU’s inability to deal with them. The cause to vast extent may lay In insufficient integration, lack of common policies such as e.g. the monetary one and ineffective decision making process. That suggests right wing which today claims to have the solution might’ve been the cause itself fighting against stronger integration. That view is shared by plenty of EU leaders and one of the strongest movements within the EU leaders wants to tighten the integration. The effort is being lead by Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands with support of plenty other countries, so Brexit might as well turn out to be an impulse towards a stronger EU. Where our country with its current foreign policy will find itself within it… Well, that is something I don’t really like to think about.

http://castle2016.com/brexit/

Have we been nuked yet?

So it’s happened. Despite all the polls and all the experts the candidate often portrayed as xenophobic, incompetent, lacking respect for women and pretty much any minority has won the race for the White House. His controversial remarks have worried pretty much every foreign leader in the western world. Transactional approach towards alliances such as NATO, admiration for Putin and threats to break agreements already in place are a cause of thousands of headaches. Should they be though? Of course he is going to be much more of an unpredictable President than any other candidate would. Personally I’d cast my ballot for Lucipher himself rather than Trump. Luckily populism can only go so far. What may work in a campaign to get uneducated votes just doesn’t work when it comes to running the state. Trump has already withdrawn from some of his promises and the first names that come up as his future administration are well-known and respected Republicans. Also Congress does not seem to be willing to approve funding of such ridiculous proposals as the famous Trump wall. It seems that after all he is going to act like a typical politician and he just won’t do what he promised. Except in this case it’s actually something we should hope for.

https://deemention.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/on-a-post-caring-world/

1. What do you think about Brexit?
2. Do you think Trump will make a better president than Hilary would?
3. Do you think those events will have big influence on Poland?