The 32 tweet threads from European commentators bewailing the loss of an America that only ever existed in the fantasies of European commentators are part of the problem
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Alexander Clarkson
The analytical equivalent of rocking back and forth in a dark corner doesn't really help anyone in Europe.
Better to focus on practical steps to accelerate an expansion of European defence capacity that is already happening and accept that pre-Trump America is gone forever.
Better to focus on practical steps to accelerate an expansion of European defence capacity that is already happening and accept that pre-Trump America is gone forever.
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While Europeans were prone to viewing Americans as distant titans to be emulated, Canadians tend to view Americans as local weirdos to be humoured
In 2000 dad and I went from the UK to visit distant cousins in Detroit. One of the days we popped under the tunnel to Windsor Ontario for a beer.
The difference between the two was stark ... dereliction and decay and rubbish strewn public space/parkland on the US side […]
It seems very apparent to me, that most see it how it suits them, which is..... shock horror... not how it is.
Wake up everyone.
US hegemony was as much a psychological construct as it was anchored in concrete military or economic power.
Made China and Russia more weary.
Now they are much free to pick off the allies one by one.
The UK's over reliance on the UKUS defence axis was pure us
Blair admitted so, willing to pay for the "special relationship" in blood