Romanian general elections will be run on December 11. The Netherlands votes in March, French Presidential elections will be held in late April/beginning of May. Germany in September, Czech Republic in October. Plus local elections in Germany and several presidential elections. And the populist candidates are already sensing victory.

Immediately after Trump was declared 45th president of the USA, Marine Le Pen in France said: “Nothing is immutable. What has happened this night is not the end of the world, it’s the end of a world.” Even more pertinently Le Pen’s chief strategist Florian Philippot tweeted: “Their world is collapsing, ours is being built.” And yet another former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin added: “The boundaries of reason disappeared with Brexit, the main lesson for France is that Le Pen can win.”

Mr Trump has promised to renegotiate America’s trade deals and has threatened to pull the US out of the World Trade Organisation. He has also threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico and China, which experts fear could raise domestic inflation and affect European exporters.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already projected the growth of the eurozone GDP to decrease to 1.5 percent next year and that estimate was with the US economy picking up. A former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson said: “Trump’s trade-led recession would trip Europe back into full-blown recession, which would likely precipitate a serious banking crisis.

“If this risk were not contained and the probability of a European banking debacle is already disconcertingly high, there would be a further negative spiral.” French president, Francois Hollande, said: “Certain positions taken by Donald Trump during the American campaign must be confronted.

“What is at stake is peace, the fight against terrorism, the situation in the Middle East. It is economic relations and the preservation of the planet.” European foreign ministers are set to meet on Sunday to asses what impact Mr Trump’s election victory will have on transatlantic relations.

Jürgen Hardt, the German government’s Coordinator of Transatlantic Relations, spoke of the "necessity for us Europeans, and particularly for us Germans, to assume more responsibility." This "responsibility" would "grow" under a US President Trump and this concerns "all … instruments of foreign and security policy." The call for more German influence reiterates positions recently voiced in Berlin's foreign policy establishment, demanding "not to leave stability policy proposals up to the USA," but to independently evaluate how to "shape the future global order."

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen and Chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Wolfgang Ischinger, are linking this demand to a call for significantly increasing the German military budget.

It calls for a more aggressive German and European foreign policy that is ready, “whatever the election result” to pursue economic and geopolitical aims independently of the United States and, if necessary, against Washington.​ ​Just before the election, a column on Spiegel Online provided a taste of what this means.

Under the title, “How Trump could force Germany to rearm,” a certain Henrik Müller forecasts: “Should Donald Trump be elected US president on Tuesday, Germany will face a great debate regarding rearming. It could become the decisive theme of the [German] federal elections in 2017 — an intense controversy with the potential to divide the country.”​

Speaking to students at a conference in Luxembourg on Friday, Jean-Claude Juncker said the 70-year-old former reality TV star was ignorant of the EU and its workings, and would "waste time for two years" while touring a world "he is completely unaware of".

"We will need to teach the president-elect what Europe is and how it works," Juncker said, adding that Americans usually had no interest in Europe."I think we will waste two years before Mr Trump tours the world he does not know," said Juncker, who on Thursday had already raised doubts about Trump's views on global trade, climate policy and Western security.

This is just vicious stuff. But for pure pathos crossing into the absurd, we turn (as usual) to the college campus. Consider:

The University of Michigan offered its traumatized students coloring books and Play-Doh to calm them. (Are its students in college or kindergarten?)

The University of Kansas reminded its stressed-out kids that therapy dogs, a regular campus feature, were available.

Cornell University, an Ivy League school, held a campus-wide “cry-in,” with officials handing out tissues and hot chocolate.

Tufts University offered its devastated students arts and crafts sessions (OK, not kindergarten — more like summer camp).

At campuses from elite Yale to Connecticut to Iowa and beyond, professors canceled classes and/or exams — either because students asked or because instructors were too distraught to teach.

Anarchist-fueled violence and destruction can’t be tolerated. Nor should corporate (or anti-corporate) temper tantrums that blatantly violate free-speech rights.

Collegiate sobbing and wailing, on the other hand, shouldn’t be tolerated — especially not by the parents who are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to pay for it. And they all should consider that their reaction to Trump’s win goes a long way towards explaining precisely why he did!

Under the Italian constitution any new law needs to be approved by both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, often resulting in delays. But on December 4, the Italian public will get to decide whether they want to stick with the old way or shake things up by restructuring the legislative process by effectively reducing the second chamber's power.

Mr Renzi has vowed to resign and abandon politics if the constitutional reforms are not passed and opponents appear to have seized on what they see as an opportunity to oust him and press ahead with their own populist anti-EU agendas. Ms Toschi said: "There is certainly a lot of interest on the upcoming Italian referendum and what its result may mean for the future of Europe's political stability.”

At the heart of the proposal is pooling of military assets, administration, and infrastructure, releasing resources that can be deployed to develop technology and the development of tangible capability, including a consolidated force that can defend European cyberspace.

France, Germany, Italy, and Spain are calling for a common European defense policy that does not depend on the United States. Britain vows to block the union for as long as it remains in the EU. The German Minister said on Monday that missions such as patrolling the Mediterranean for migrant crossings should be a job for the EU, not NATO.

Eurosceptics fear that federalists in the EU will seek to force through a more integrated defence strategy, including an EU army. Mr Van Orden slammed the “ayatollahs of European integration” for what he saw as using Brexit to bring about a European Defence Union. He told EuroparlTV: “I suppose many would say that the United Kingdom has been the most hesitant about a European Defence Union. We don't want to see a European army.

“Maybe with the prospect of the UK now leaving the European Union, they see this as an opportunity. And indeed I've heard that some of the ayatollahs of European integration that exist in this Parliament have specifically said this.”

According to sources, Putin believes that the result of the US election proves the globalists’ destructive agenda is deeply unpopular with real people, and when given a chance they will instinctively reject it out of hand. “The American people stood up against the media, the banks, the establishment, everything was against them, but they said enough. They want change.”

Putin vowed to destroy the New World Order in 2016, and it appears people all over the world have started to wake up and resonate with his goal. The President is “deeply encouraged” that his determination to destroy the invasive organisation’s agenda is shared by people all over the world, and gaining momentum all the time.

The US presidential election is historic, because the American people were able to defeat the oligarchs. Hillary Clinton, an agent for the oligarchy, was defeated despite the vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that both the political establishment of both political parties and the media no longer have credibility with the American people.

It remains to be seen whether Trump can select and appoint a government that will serve him and his goals to restore American jobs and to establish friendly and respectful relations with Russia, China, Syria, and Iran.

It also remains to be seen how the oligarchy will respond to Trump's victory. Wall Street and its agent, the Federal Reserve, can cause an economic crisis in order to put Trump on the defensive. Rogue agents in the CIA and Pentagon can cause a false flag attack that would disrupt friendly relations with Russia. Trump could make a mistake and retain neoconservatives in his government.

If Trump is actually successful in curbing the power and budget of the military/security complex and in holding Wall Street politically accountable, he could be assassinated.

For the first time since before World War II, Americans chose a president who promised to reverse the internationalism practiced by predecessors of both parties and to build walls both physical and metaphorical. Mr Trump’s win foreshadowed an America more focused on its own affairs while leaving the world to take care of itself.

The outsider revolution that propelled him to power over the Washington establishment of both political parties also reflected a fundamental shift in international politics evidenced already this year by events like Britain’s referendum vote to leave the European Union. Mr Trump’s success could fuel the populist, nativist, nationalist, closed-border movements already so evident in Europe and spreading to other parts of the world.

Crispin Blunt, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in Britain’s House of Commons, said, “We are plunged into uncertainty and the unknown.” Mr Trump’s promise to pull back militarily and economically left many overseas contemplating a road ahead without an American ally.

“Trump’s presidency will make the US sink into a full-blown crisis, including an economic one,” said Vladimir Frolov, a Russian columnist and international affairs analyst. “The US will be occupied with its own issues and will not bother Putin with questions.”

“As a consequence,” he added, “Moscow will have a window of opportunity in geopolitical terms. For instance, it can claim control over the former Soviet Union and a part of the Middle East. What is there not to like?”

Now he is the US president elect, an outcome that most mainstream observers regard as an astonishing upset. Comparisons with the Brexit surprise abound. The result underscores how badly modern polls serve us. Polling is an enormous, lucrative and influential industry – Australia has lost sitting prime ministers over poll results. But the US election outcome shows how unreliable polls can be at predicting our political futures. Many pollsters are now eating humble pie.

Sam Wang, the widely-lauded pollster behind the Princeton Election Consortium website, was only recently so confident of a Clinton win that he tweeted: It is totally over. If Trump wins more than 240 electoral votes, I will eat a bug. As the votes for Trump rolled in, Wang wrote that he’s getting ready for “bug-cookery”, saying that “the polls were off, massively”. In the late hours of voting day in the US, Wang wrote:

The entire polling industry – public, campaign-associated, aggregators – ended up with data that missed tonight’s results by a very large margin. There is now the question of understanding how a mature industry could have gone so wrong. And of course, most of all, there is the shock of a likely Trump presidency. I apologize that I underestimated the possibility of such an event.

“What happens in the world today, that when there is the bankruptcy of a bank, scandalous sums immediately appear to save it, but when this bankruptcy of humanity occurs, is there almost a thousandth of a part to save those brothers and sisters who suffer so much?” Francis asked, according to the Catholic News Agency (CNA).

Speaking at a Vatican meeting that included members of international NGOs, environmentalists, labor union representatives, and indigenous rights activists, the Pope stressed that the Mediterranean has become “a graveyard, and not only the Mediterranean... so many graveyards by the walls, walls stained with innocent blood.”

The number of refugees and migrants reaching Europe this year has already passed the 300,000 mark, the UN said in September, adding that at least 3,167 people have died or went missing crossing the Mediterranean so far this year. “At this rate, 2016 will be the deadliest year on record in the Mediterranean Sea.”

Another evil, according to Francis, is corruption, with the pope noting “there is no better antidote than austerity. And to practice austerity is, furthermore, to preach by example.” “I ask you not to underestimate the value of example, because it has more strength than a thousand words, a thousand leaflets, a thousand ‘likes,’ a thousand ‘retweets,’ and a thousand videos on YouTube,” he said.