Interesting report from the world of diplomacy and military alliance.
The headline quotation is a direct quotation of a non-American senior official to the Americans at the meeting.
80 years of effort to build up a world of shared values burned in under a year. 80 years of soft power tossed in the compost pile and recycled into fertilizer. 80 years of blood, sweat, and tears as Americans laboured to make the world safe for America.
All gone in the tantrums of a decrepit toddler.
Indeed, USA: We genuinely will never fucking trust you again.
The USA should never have been trusted in the first place. The mask is dropping now, but they have ALWAYS been supporters of dictatorships, fascists, and genocide. They have been an oligarchy from the start, it was baked in to their constitution. Anyone believing their propaganda that they were a democracy or ever gave a shit about democracy is a weak minded fool. Money and guns are their only gods, they are incinerating the entire planet for profit, and have been LONG before the felonious pedophile conman currently in office.
This I don’t get how all their allies allowed them to build bases in their countries. Like you have a stepping stone already there for them to invade you. I don’t get how the whold world has sold out to America and are no dependeant on them for “technology”. It was stupid before Trump, to be so dependant on another country. We also know the US and China are not really differnt people always say China companies are beholden to Chinese law but so are American companies beholden to American Law. Microsoft has said if they get a order for something from American government it doesn’t matter what the countries laws say they well have to follow it. So all the BS about EU citizens data has to be kept in Europe is BS as MS could just get the data fromt the US and give it to the government. Politicans are stupid it doesn’t matter where the data is stored it can be accessed anywhere.
The only reason the US ever gained “trust” was because their late joining of WW2 allowed their industry ramp-up (remember the US was selling equipment to both sides until Pearl Harbor, to the point where when Allied forces landed in continental Europe and began pushing into Nazi occupied territories, they noticed how parts for their trucks etc. were all compatible, in an age where cars had no standardisation even within a manufacturer), and the war playing out away from their homeland allowed for said industrial uplift to remain untouched.
Meanwhile Europe was ravaged by the wars - remember the primary reason for Hitler’s rise was the overly aggressive Versailles Treaty that put considerable financial drain on the Central Powers (Hungary being split up was obviously a larger thing, but Germany also lost territories and had to pay restitutions), which limited the economic recovery of the countries, resulting in poor working and living conditions that people blamed on the newly formed democratic government - which in turn allowed Hitler to gain support using the usual far right demagogue, populist crap that is gaining traction today.
All that meant that Europe, while it had the manpower, lacked the available resources and ways to utilise them, and heavily depended on the Marshall Plan, which made the western European countries dependent on the US, making the latter appear as a reliable friend.
And for the Eastern European countries… The US continued a constant propaganda of “helping countries under Soviet rule fight for independence” (see Radio Free Europe) - and somehow managed to maintain the position of being a helpful friend after willfully ignoring the 1956 Hungarian freedom fight for which the US promised military help, then promptly ignored because a more lucrative opportunity in the shape of the Suez crisis, surfaced at the same time.
So yeah it’s high time for Europe to realise just how fickle the US is as a partner. They’ve been literally the cause of every single major market crash in the past 50 years, allowing their internal financial clusterfuckup to spiral out and affect other countries even worse, taking absolutely no responsibility for it while reaping all the benefits… They’ve also pretty much caused all major wars in the past 50 years as a way to justify maintaining and increasing their “defense” spending (the one honest thing Trump has done in his second term was renaming the DoD to Department of War), forcing their subpar, overpriced military crapquipment on their “allies” and even demanding said allies to join unjustified wars through any means necessary…
No, fuck the US, it’s time for Europe to wake up and be truly independent of their crap. The failed attempt at “freedom” failed enough by now. Let them collapse, let them burn, and maybe they’ll rebuild something that actually resembles a country from the ashes.
Sure but we the world let them the reason their finacial situation spirals to everyone is we let the US become unreplaceable. And yes they are as of now. Their economy is so big that they can’t be replaced by increasing trade with outher countries as the other countries are not big enough to replace them. And they consume a lot of goods far more then other countries.