Because TACO told you so. Sure 😘

Maybe you missed it, but the ‘70s were wild with terrorism from both sides.

I think you can call them as you like, but American meat usually is not considered food for humans in the EU. The problem typically is the amount of hormones.

Well… the nazis greatly expanded the German infrastructures for transportation. Should we remember them for that?

They played the scenario of Putin invading a micro-village somewhere in Latvia and wondered if NATO countries would risk WW3 over it.

The answer was negative, especially in regards of the American support.

Now the EU started a program to rearm itself and create its own nuclear shield.

Maybe you missed the part where Trump decided to “maybe” withdraw the US from NATO, switched to a Mafia style for military protection, threatened to reduce military capacity in the EU (effectively eliminating some functions), and announced that he may invade Greenland. Not counting the MAGA doctrine to stop sending troops around the world (except maybe in Israel, ops!) and the leaks on Signal.

Sorry man, TACO may be a clown, but the EU took it seriously. We will replace the US military shield by 2030. Google it if you don’t believe it.

Bye 👋

They always funded European left-wing parties at least until the fall of URSS. There were even cultural exchanges with European politicians going to Moscow. It was never a secret! The same thing is still happening today with some parties openly pro-Putin (at least until the invasion of Ukraine).

It’s funny because while we both acknowledge that we can have different opinions, you imply that mine is totally wrong.

Before Trump 2 the US was an ally, the cornerstone of NATO, the place where you want to go to have some kind of career, and so on. We can argue that something changed a bit over the decades, but America was always America. Even during Trump’s first term, for us at least, it was business as usual (despite lots of negative forecasts).

In the last few months all that certainty became questionable at least. I see a remarkable shift in politics, public opinion, and risk assessment at work. “Going European” is a widespread idea. Replacing the US in defence is now for the first time in history a funded project with an end date and clear objectives, including nuclear defence. Quite a few websites emerged to help consumers “buy European” or “check if it’s American”. For the first time in my life, boycotting US is no more something for rebellious teenagers full of ideologies, and people are at work to create here those things that we used to “just buy” from the US. The EU put on the table “the bazooka”: a legal instrument created to kick out China from the continent and that now some (like France) want to use against Trump.

But yeah, you can think that it all started years ago and that I have a secret agenda to defend Biden. Sure, why not?

My dear, the NATO military spending has been ignored for long time. Now it was decided to reach it to replace the US that stopped being a reliable partner.

Fake

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/sleeping-intern-in-office-prank-image-mistaken-for-dead-man-idUSL1N3A40LZ/

It made it painfully clear to the public opinion how much society relies on gas.

Unfortunately the general public doesn’t understand long term reasoning: nor climate change, nor energy independence. If it doesn’t happen right now, it’s ignored by most people. The high spike in price worked really well to open a debate to support more renewables or nuclear power.

Consider that even now, after all that happened, the EU has a noisy minority trying to shoot down alternatives to gas.

Another difference. Republicans just convinced Europe that the USA cannot be trusted anymore as a commercial and defence party, and new deals should be made with the rest of the world to move away from the Dollar.