Personally, I’d say it’s long overdue that Europe reduces its reliance on the US. I am curious if it bothers you though, how much time you seem to spend thinking about America when I can assure you, the bulk of the population in the United States gives almost no thought to Europe at all?

There’s a reason the expression “Americans think 100 years is old, Europeans think 100 miles is far.” exists. The US is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Europe is approximately 10,180,000 sq km. Americans are too busy worrying about their own country. Why you even care about them at all is baffling. I would think you’d want them to go back to being isolationist.

We care about America out of necessity. America has pushed its tentacles into Europe for the last 90 years. That reliance was carefully crafted by the US.

Some of us have been arguing against reliance on and acceptance of the “American way” all this time, but the idea of a champion of freedom and democracy leading the world was a comforting lie for many (including Americans themselves) and while it lasted it did bring some form of stability.

And just to be clear; Americans may not think about Europe but they barely think about their own country either. I’m not saying European citizens are as informed as they should be but at least 50% of Americans are just so proudly pigignorant of their own history and government that it’s hard for an outsider to understand.