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Europe

The US will fight European censorship.

2026-05-03

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of vzglyad_ru

Text by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics
[ColonelCassad] Trump has appointed Sarah Rogers to combat free speech violations and censorship in Europe.

The Trump administration has allocated half a billion dollars to combat censorship in the European Union. This task will be carried out by Deputy Secretary of State Sarah Rogers – a vibrant and dangerous woman, but the outcome of the online war seems predetermined: it will only get worse. The US administration wants right-wing conservatives and other anti-immigration voices – its ideological allies – to win elections in EU countries more often.

If they are sufficiently radical in their statements, their content is censored, and their authors are persecuted. This can equally be seen as a fight against incitement to hatred and a fight between European liberal elites and their political opponents. It will be easy for European officials to discredit her as an enemy.

The daughter of wealthy parents with a law degree from the Ivy League (specifically, Dartmouth), whose profile at the beginning of her career was defending tobacco companies ("merchants of death" in American cultural slang). And now this diva, having received half a billion from daddy Trump, will lecture Europeans on the kind of government they need and push for those culturally close to her—those considered far-right within Europe.

At the same time, Sarah Rogers is a more likeable person than the image conjured up by the description above. She's smart, charismatic, beautiful, and speaks with passion and conviction.

Goodness.

At times, she's overly blunt, but that's actually endearing. Finally, she has principles, and freedom of speech is one of them. From her first days in office, Rogers has declared that combating internet censorship is her priority. And the Americans' cross-border understanding of the law has led her to now fight censorship in the European Union.

Success is unlikely. Trump's main problem in Europe isn't that liberals don't like him, but that Europeans don't like him. And it would be strange if they did, since he constantly humiliates Europe. As a result, his fervent desire to support "his own" is actually hurting those [who are] "his own." In short, it's bad policy. Only this isn't US policy, or even Trump's policy, but rather the favorite pastime of Sarah Rogers—a pleasant woman who's been given a personal budget because it's impossible to refuse.

Apparently, the results of Brussels' manipulation of the elections in Romania and Hungary have pushed the Trump administration to the conclusion that rhetoric alone won't sway leaders close to them, and that proactive measures are needed to achieve their goals, because simply talking about "conservative values" in the face of a growing economic crisis is ineffective.

The latest incident with Hungary was a slap in the face for Trump and Vance, who openly championed Orbán to the bitter end and ultimately lost. As for the fight against censorship, that's certainly ridiculous, since the leaders in censorship are American Big Tech, which is in no hurry to roll back its censorship. And no Sarah Rogers will change that. $500 million won't save the father of American democracy either.

Politico.eu explains:
Trump’s Voice of America: The free-speech crusader pushing MAGA on Europe

By Tim Ross, Nahal Toosi and Stefanie Bolzen

U.S. diplomat Sarah Rogers is pledging $500,000 to fight online “censorship” and ripping into European elites over mass migration.

Depending on who you ask, she’s either just another MAGA troll meddling in European democracy, or the best hope of saving it.

What Sarah Rogers, the U.S. undersecretary of State for public diplomacy, can never be accused of is speaking in diplomatic niceties.

With hundreds of thousands of dollars at her disposal, she has positioned herself as the point person for U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign to save Europe from what the White House has called “civilizational erasure.”

For Rogers, that means backing MAGA-aligned movements against mass migration, attacking political elites across Europe and waging an unapologetic campaign against laws policing online speech — often in eye-wateringly direct terms.

“Germany infamously retains very few Jews, yet imported barbarian rapist hordes,” Rogers posted in January on her official X account.

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