Target: Antonio Costa, President of European Commission
Goal: Enact coordinated plan of response against increasing threats and pressure from American leadership.
When the United States abruptly removed 30 ambassadors from their posts in late 2025, it proved to be an ominous harbinger of America’s increasingly volatile presence on the world stage. Since then, the president has publicly threatened to take — “one way or another” — the sovereign territory of an ally, has degraded and demeaned many other allies in a rambling and often incoherent speech at a major international gathering, has posted inflammatory memes featuring the American flag on Canada, has threatened tariffs on allies who do not support his aggressive posturing (and in the process upended a trade deal with Europeans), and has created a “Board of Peace” (while complaining in a letter to an ally that he felt no obligation to “think of peace” after he failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize). This board is currently filled with dictators and has a “membership fee” for allies of one billion dollars.
Moreover, new national security strategy developed by the administration reads more like an imperialist wish list than an actual effort to make the country and the world more secure and stable. At the aforementioned global gathering, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made his own impassioned speech that seemed directly aimed at U.S. leadership: “Today, I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality…where the large, main power is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless… Powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited… The middle powers must act together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
Sign the petition below to echo this call for other world leaders to stand up to intimidation and coercion, even when – and especially when – it comes from the leader of the free world.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear President Costa,
“I can’t take this complicity of people rolling over. I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders.” California Governor – and leader of the fourth largest economy in the world – Gavin Newsom was correct that conciliation and flattery will not resolve the growing chasm between the United States and its allies. Do world leaders need a reminder of how the appeasement approach worked out prior to World War II?
Please listen to the impassioned words of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and stand up, stand together, and stand against dangerous and destabilizing rhetoric. Otherwise, your collective weakness will come at the world’s peril.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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