The anti-Americanism of a certain 'right-wing' and the theses that lie behind it

For years now, a strong anti-American discourse has existed in Europe, actively promoted by the left and the far left.

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To be fair, it must be said that this discourse also exists on the other side of the political spectrum. Today we have an example. José Javier Esparza writes: "Let's stop with the nonsense: the Americans didn't come in 1944 to 'liberate' us: they came to take what they could, like the Russians. Washington's initial plan (Morgenthau's, for example) was to divide Germany into four small agrarian states, without industry, and to maintain the division of France into two countries brought about by the German invasion. It was the Soviet threat that moved the Americans to change tactics."

Of course, reality is far more stubborn than ideological narratives. In Western Europe, which the Americans helped liberate (yes, liberate, because it had previously been invaded by totalitarian criminals), democratic states flourished, in which millions of people have been able to enjoy freedom for 81 years thanks, in large part, to the sacrifice of many Americans. The Soviets established communist dictatorships in the countries they occupied, totalitarian regimes that turned those countries into enormous prisons, and Esparza has the nerve to equate that with the liberation promoted by the Americans. A distorted view of history that involves replacing facts with ideological dogmas.

This is nothing new. Two years ago, Esparza tried to convince us that "Spain is not a great nation," a thesis he justified by stating that "our armies are at the beck and call of the Americans." Of course, these speeches aimed at discrediting the meritorious role of the United States in the European theater during World War II are not accidental. Weakening our alliance with the world's largest democracy is the goal of many anti-liberals on both ends of the political spectrum. A discourse that is often accompanied by other things.

It is no surprise to find that the same author, in an article published two weeks earlier, stated that "it was reckless to extend NATO endlessly eastward", thus subscribing to one of the most common pro-Russian theses about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and questioning "the support for Ukraine and the harassment of Russia" (let us remember that Russia has had troops in Moldova since 1994, invaded Georgia in 2008, Crimea in 2014 and the rest of Ukraine in 2022, but that author still dared to say that Russia was being harassed). Finally, he accused the West of "irresponsible rhetoric of childish warmongering". Russia invades Ukraine, systematically massacres its civilian population, and commits all kinds of crimes during that invasion, but he attributes the "warmongering" to the West.

To no one's surprise, in 2017 the same author dismissed the reports about Russian interference in the separatist coup of that year in Catalonia, stating: "The “Russian lead” is something like the progressive and globalist version of the old Judeo-Masonic conspiracy: it serves for everything". In reality, it was the Civil Guard that uncovered this Russian interference, whose trace was erased by the Sánchez government as part of its infamous amnesty to its separatist partners in exchange for their support for his re-election in 2023. Politics certainly makes for curious traveling companions, including a certain "right" whose foreign policy similarities with the far left are becoming increasingly scandalous, starting with their hatred for the largest democracy in the West.

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Photo: Robert F. Sargent. "Into the Jaws of Death — U.S. Troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire". Photo of the Normandy Landings taken on the morning of June 6, 1944.