Europeans like to pretend they’re innocent, but they are the benefactors of most the damaging empires to have ever existed. They colonized nearly the entire world, extracting value from other cultures while destroying them. They pulled out once it was financially wise, keeping the wealth they extracted and leaving behind the destruction they created. They then blame everyone else for their issues while bragging about how awesome the EU is while overlooking that the EU is only possible due to the wealth they stole from everyone else. Europe likes to discuss that they had their social hardship discussing WWII, but the origin and impact of WWII there was internal to Europe. Had Europe been subject to colonization from elsewhere, it would be just as much a mess as other places. Look at the situation in former Soviet Pact countries that were practically colonized by Russia for maybe half a century. Now imagine if instead of half a century, it was hundreds of years and 5 times as brutal.

Fun fact: The term “colony” comes from Christopher Colombus’ name, which is Spanish is Cristobal Colon. Even the term colonization derives from a European.

tl;dr: Europe got to where it is by destroying the rest of the world while blaming the rest of the world for their issues. Their critique of USA is merely a distraction from their own responsibility.

Yeah I think they’re aware of colonisation

They’re still arrogant as fuck and most of the world can’t stand Europeans. I’ve lived there a couple of years and experienced the arrogance personally. Yeah we get it, you have bought in to your indoctrination and you’re mostly good peons all wishing you could force your behaviors on the rest of the world.

NGL, it sounds like your describing Americans, sorry!

Which country did you live in?

American are a lot more willing to criticize our ruling regime and half of us talk about how us is doing crimes actively... We know where out daddies obtained their capital.

The same can't be said about Germans for example or French.

Russians?

Saying that with a straight face while a outright fascist is coming into power and every us billionaire is stepping in line to kiss their ring while the working class is doing nothing of importance. USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it’s the most revolutionary.

Some truth there but we also have Luigi...

USians must be the most submissive culture in the world while actually thinking it's the most revolutionary.

We have our bootlickers too. I never suggested revolutionary, but critical. Europeans have melt down at any criticism, Germans esp.