Jay Elwes

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Goodnight, Vietnam: The fall of Saigon, 50 years on

2 days ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Army on April 30, 1975, 50 years ago this month. On that day it was 105 degrees outside and the air conditioning in the US embassy had broken. “At one point we took bags of half-shredded secrets down to the embassy courtyard,” one CIA officer recalled of the rush to get out of the city, “and when the choppers began landing they blew open all of these bags.
Trump’s tariffs: the one war he can never win

3 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

As you may have noticed, the United States of America is the biggest and most important single economy in the world. There are multiple reasons for that, including history, geography and a whole lot more besides. But one of the things that keeps the US in place as the world’s preeminent economic power is its currency. The greenback. The dollar. Donald Trump’s tariff war may be about to change all that. The dollar is the global reserve currency.
Europe is America’s public enemy No.1

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

When Britain had its Suez Crisis back in 1956, it involved the deployment of 45,000 British troops to the western desert. But the American Suez crisis of 2025 has been conjured up by a social media chat group made up of no more than seven or eight White House staff – plus one journalist, who was added by accident. No one quite knows why Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic magazine, was included in a White House Signal group discussion about plans to bomb Houthi rebel positions in Yemen.
A political catastrophe on live TV

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

The spectacle of Volodomyr Zelensky being attacked at a press event by Donald Trump and JD Vance was one of the worst spectacles ever seen in modern politics. The Ukrainian president was told off by Trump, criticised for not being grateful enough for US military assistance, scolded for his failure to say thank you, and in a grotesque almost unbearable moment, was asked by a sneering Trump courtier why he wasn’t wearing a suit.
Are we all screwed?

2 months ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

How exactly do you destroy a successful, democratic nation? The barrister, judge and historian Jonathan Sumption raises this question in his latest book The Challenges of Democracy. “By some definitions, nearly three-quarters of the world’s population today live under authoritarian regimes of one kind or another,” he writes.
The silliness of evil

Jan 21, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Well, here we go again. He’s back. The assurances given this time are that this is a new him, an improved, more disciplined political operator who learned from the mistakes of the first term, who accepts that perhaps things got a little out of hand and has brought new people onto the team to help keep his excesses in check. The team may have changed and the inauguration speech might have been slightly lower temperature than the last one, but the central character has not changed.
Social media: the tool of a new, aggressive US foreign policy

Jan 10, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Twitter used to be a social media platform. But Elon Musk, who owns the website and who also happens to be Donald Trump’s closest ally and will serve in his government, has used his ownership of the platform to turn it into something else. Twitter has become a tool of US foreign policy. Musk has made this change by using the platform he owns as a lever to break into the politics of other countries. He targeted the UK in a very straightforward way.
Why Donald Trump wants Greenland

Jan 8, 2025 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Donald Trump wants to take possession of Greenland, annex the Panama Canal, rename the Gulf of Mexico as “the Gulf of America” and has referred to the US-Canadian border as “an artificially drawn line”. On the subject of Canada, he told reporters, “they should be a state”. This appetite for stealing large parts of foreign countries is an impulse that Trump shares with other authoritarian rulers, most recently Vladimir Putin.
The killing field: Where Berlin confronts its Nazi past

Nov 19, 2024 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Wilhelmstrasse is a busy thoroughfare that cuts through central Berlin. At one point, heading north, there is a ramen bar, a cafe advertising its cakes, a Thai massage parlour, and then to your left, incongruously, a patch of woodland and next to that, an area of open ground. The field is about the size of a city block and strewn with dark grey stones, giving it the appearance of a volcanic plain.
What does Trump’s victory mean?

Nov 6, 2024 | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jay Elwes

Donald Trump’s victory means that the essential facts are now these: the world is dominated by two nation state super-powers, the US and China. Britain does not share China’s political values, and it never will. With Trump back in the White House, Britain will not share the US’s political values either. Britain has clung on to the “special relationship” for years, on the assumption that the US and Britain share common aims in defence, security and commerce. But that fiction has finally collapsed.