Europe’s hard-right parties are breaking ranks with US President Donald Trump over the Iran war.
Populist groups across the continent have broadly aligned themselves with Trump’s MAGA movement. But the partnership has been weakened by the US campaign against Iran, which undermines Trump’s isolationist “America First” vision and has pushed up energy prices worldwide.
France’s Marine Le Pen said the strikes had “catastrophic consequences,” the Alternative für Deutschland party demanded US troops leave Germany, Britain’s Nigel Farage argued the UK should stay out of the war, and the Danish People’s Party leader said earlier this year that Trump should be given a “FIRM REJECTION” over his threats to annex Greenland: “IT’S THE ONLY LANGUAGE HE UNDERSTANDS,” he added, in Trumpesque all-caps.