Jose Maria Aznar He also wanted to talk about the American elections. After having meditated for a few seconds on the question of Edward Inda As for who he would vote for in the upcoming November 5 election, the former president gave an unusual answer: “If I knew who was going to win the American election, I would be a wise man. They are extraordinarily tight and depend on one or two states at most. What would I vote for if I were American? “I probably wouldn’t vote.”
“I am worried about what is happening because the United States is still a great power and their situation is not the best. The polarization in the country is enormous. Since the Civil War, with slavery involved, there have been no such tensions. Not even during the Vietnam War. In the United States, unlike other countries, people want to carry guns. This is not an irrelevant situation. The domestic situation is not the most desirable because, ultimately, our security and stability largely depend on the United States2, Aznar said.
“If we analyze what happened in Europe between the two wars, it is that from the beginning of the 20th century, we already saw that the great power in the world was going to be the United States because we, Europeans , we decided to commit suicide with the two wars. During the First World War, France and England were already dependent on the United States. When the League of Nations was established, the United States decided not to participate and no one was able to fill the void. This was instrumental in the expansion of fascism, Nazism and communism. This is why, after the Second World War, it was only under the Soviet threat that the United States reacted and NATO, then the European Union, were created,” he continued. .
And here Aznar offered an interesting thought: “Polarization is one of the negative consequences of the technological revolution, which serves not to unite people, but to divide them. “Anyone who has the power to develop it knows it and uses it because polarization produces more business than consensus.”
