A new survey reveals EU citizens are growing more and more US-sceptic, and think it’s time for the bloc to pursue its own foreign policy and reduce ties with Washington.
- jagged_circle ( @jagged_circle@feddit.nl ) English2•9 hours ago
Good. Now issue sanctions plz
- technocrit ( @technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•9 hours ago
It only took like 400 years of cooperating on racist violence around the planet… Before USA became too shitty for even the other colonizers. This kind of “progress” is too slow to save the planet.
- sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ) 28•21 hours ago
No shit. I don’t consider the US to be my ally either, and I live here (in the US).
- Che Banana ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 4•17 hours ago
I don’t consider the US to be my ally either, and I’m a US citizen in the EU
- Jeredin ( @Jeredin@lemm.ee ) 21•20 hours ago
That’s exactly what Russia and gang had planned (among other things); well played….sadly…
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) 2•16 hours ago
Yeah and? The US was never a friend of Europe, they just saw us as a colony and battleground, see shit like Operation Gladio.
Is it in our reciprocal interests to be allies against the other world powers? So far yes, but the way the US is going, that’s changing, and it’s definitely not our fault.
- stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 8•17 hours ago
MAGA/Trump winning in 2016 shocked us, to that point the US was seen as a weird but stable ally, we grew complacent since the US was run by predictable people, who’s interest for their country mostly aligned with our interests.
Then a collected psychosis took over the US, MAGA, and with that came Trump, a president who is actively sabotaging their country for their own personal short term gains.
Now obviously those kinds of leaders are common, even in the West, but in general they do it quietly, while still appearing to care.
Trump came in and broke the rules, he pissed all over his country and it’s allies (remember at the start of his presidency when there was this whole thing about him trying to establish dominance by squeezing the hands of other leaders when shaking their hands?), he pissed all over the environment, science and healthcare.
The unspoken rule was that, yeah idiots like that exists, but they never come to power.
Expect he did, and that showed the allies of the the US that the US is not as reliable as we thought.
The political ocean is storming, and the next guy to helm the U.S.S. USA. seems to think it is funny to cause wake and ride the most dangerous waves erratically.
I hope that the current administration manage to find a safe harbor before ending their shift despite that plenty of crew members are working on sabotaging the engine.
- Kusimulkku ( @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ) 9•18 hours ago
Around 49% believe Washington is no longer their most important ally, instead preferring other countries, such as the UK (13%) or China (10%).
UK okay but China? Lmao. Also it has shit like Brazil in there lol
- NoneOfUrBusiness ( @NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ) 2•13 hours ago
I mean how big is the list of non-US EU allies anyway?
- MudMan ( @MudMan@fedia.io ) 7•19 hours ago
I mean, yeah? That seems like an obvious takeaway, at least for the remaining liberal democracies in the Union. The US is clearly not within that category, it aligns closer to Russia or Hungary.
The questions is whether the EU can stop sliding in that direction itself, not whether the US is “its most important ally”. That ship has sailed.