Let me be the First to speak it out: Trump has ended the American Empire. He has ended Europe’s blind acceptance of American superpower.
America will never again be what it was. That so called beacon of hope that Public relations Geniuses invented and never really existed.
So, yes thank you Mr. Trump for helping us to wake up and thank you for ending the American empire.
While I partly agree with you, I wouldn’t thank that idiot for it. There’s a good chance that what he’s doing (even if it doesn’t fully impact Europe) will eventually drag us into it as well. If he keeps going after China he will at some point set Europe an ultimatum too: stay friends with us and stop everything you’re doing with China or be our enemy. If we choose the latter it might eventually even lead to some form of war…
Let’s hope that doesn’t happen (and most of the damage is contained within the US itself, for better or worse).
That would be a geopolitical disaster for the US. No matter how much he yaps his mouth around, Trump doesn’t want the EU as an adversary. If that were to happen the US would have 2 flanks to defend against instead of one. And the EU is not Russia. Collectively the EU has the second biggest military budget and the third biggest economy in the world.
Trump is trying to get us to increase centralization at the EU level which is great as far as I’m concerned. But that chucklenut is doing it in a way that will also massively sour relations in the long term. As insane as it sounds, if Trump’s successor is going to be like him, China will probably be a more reliable partner than the US. The only caveat is that Taiwan is going to be extremely vulnerable in such a situation.
I’m hoping the US will come to its senses at the next election and relations will normalize. The Americans are pricks, but they are still more ideologically aligned with us than the Chinese.
Trump and his supporters do not care even if it hurts them. It is all about hurting people they do not like.