It is an understatement to say that since the arrival of the second Trump administration, America’s relations with its European allies have become unsettled. Analysts in Europe and the United States have blamed this change on Washington’s combative tone, the administration’s Ukraine policy and reset with Russia, and, of late, Trump’s tariffs and the prospect of a trade war with the European Union.
The Great Divide that Threatens NATO and Transatlantic Ties
These high-visibility US policy moves do not tell the full story. Much of the current strain in transatlantic relations is driven by ideological differences between Donald Trump’s political base and the prevailing mindset among mainstream European elites. As the United States navigates the turbulent waters of Trump’s populist revolution, Europe’s policy establishment has been holding fast to key left-liberal precepts that no longer resonate in Washington. In a nutshell, the two sides of the Atlantic are increasingly ideologically misaligned.
Until recently, ideology had little to no impact on transatlantic relations. As long as Washington pursued its long-established neo-liberal course on economic policy, it remained wedded to globalization as a path to reach “complex interdependence.” The broad ideological alignment across the Atlantic notwithstanding, the electoral cycling between Democrats and Republicans when it came to who occupied the White House did not seriously upset the overall transatlantic equilibrium.
In the national security arena, business as usual was buttressed by the fact the United States was providing the bulk of NATO’s capabilities that proved to be the deal of the century for Europe’s largest economies, especially Germany, leading over time to de facto disarmament across the continent after the Cold War.
The first Trump administration initially shocked this ideological consensus across the Atlantic, but most of Europe’s political establishment saw it as a temporary aberration. Even as some countries in NATO yielded somewhat to Trump’s demands that they spend more on defense, they soon welcomed the election of Joe Biden as President as a return to the status quo ante, with only the countries along the Eastern flank of NATO truly ramping up their efforts to rebuild their militaries.
This inaction on defense spending by Europe’s largest economies continued despite the war raging in Ukraine being a persistent reminder of how fast their immediate neighborhood was changing. The left-liberal Brussels consensus remained dominant, and any insurgency by the citizenry was apt to be branded “populist” and dismissed out of hand. Predictably, this has only further fueled popular ire across Europe, mobilizing the right and, more importantly, rapidly foreclosing the space for a political compromise that was once widely believed to be the mother’s milk of democratic politics.
Even before the new US administration entered office and launched its blunt approach to the transatlantic alliance, the second election of Trump was greeted in Europe with a gasp of disbelief and a doubling down on the Brussels consensus. In private conversations with European politicos, there were unmistakable signs that Americans who did not affirm the left-liberal consensus were now considered something akin to wayward peasants—to be condescending rather than understood, not to mention accepted as one’s equals and interlocutors. It was only a matter of time before the Trump administration’s manifest disdain for Europe not spending on defense would clash with the conviction—to quote one European official—that “Europe has agency” and hence can go its own way.
Today, the ideological difference between the Trump administration and Europe’s key leaders has dangerously obscured the basic realities of European geopolitics, further stressing the already frayed transatlantic relationship. In turn, the Trump administration’s moves to redefine the assumptions about the foundational nature of the transatlantic relationship have fueled the fire that threatens to consume NATO.
Focused on ideological jousting, many on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have forgotten that “Europe” as a unitary actor in international affairs exists largely in the minds of the Brussels elite or politicos in DC, for the European Union is a treaty-based organization built around shared markets and regulatory regimes and at present lacks the ability to play a meaningful role in defense. Moreover, this view of Europe as an autonomous player is, in effect, a manifestation of resentment towards the United States that, while brought to the fore and amplified by comments emanating from the Trump administration, has increasingly gathered over the three post-Cold War decades.
As Western European states, in particular, no longer felt an existential threat from Russia—for two decades, Berlin pursued a policy that explicitly tied Germany’s economy to Russia’s energy through Nord Stream I and II pipelines—the ennui of having to rely on Americans for defense served as a reminder of Europe’s continued weakness and its lack of great power status.
Beyond Tariffs and Economics
Today’s growing drift in Euro-Atlantic relations is not just about tariffs or economic policy priorities. It is fundamentally about ideological differences between the Trump administration and the elites governing in key European capitals.
Unless cooler heads prevail and both sides begin to listen to each other, set aside their ideological preconceptions, revisit the fundamentals of geopolitics, and bring back a modicum of mutual respect to the conversation, the United States and Europe may be soon heading for a messy divorce. How quickly it comes to that is anyone’s guess, as there are signs that populist parties in Europe, including in Germany and France, may take the field in the next electoral cycle.
Still, in politics, nothing is preordained, and regardless of what happens in Europe in a few years, today, Donald Trump’s America and Ursula von der Leyen’s Europe continue to drift apart.
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Most importantly, what has not received sufficient attention in US media is how European states see their own policy choices in light of the US realignment of its Russia policy and what is driving Europe to make them. But it is also true that notwithstanding the declarations of newfound European solidarity as the continent inches towards its declared independence from the United States, what comes across is a degree of pique that doesn’t augur well for the future of the project.
And suppose accelerated overtures to China augment this process as we have witnessed of late. In that case, the Ameri-skeptics in Europe and the Euro-skeptics in the United States may get their wish, and regrettably, we will be worse off for it on both sides of the Atlantic.
About the Author: Dr. Andrew Michta
Andrew A. Michta is a Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council of the United States. Views expressed here are his own. Michta is also a 19FortyFive columnist.
waco
April 26, 2025 at 9:44 am
Washington must bring the European partners to heel, otherwise, the world could very well re-experience another worldwide highly destructive global war.
The European entities cannot be trusted. They’re otally untrustworthy. This is also why china’s xi is now busily courting them. Xi is exactly just like them as well.Totally untrustworthy.
The hell with those feckin’ euros. They’re feckin’ly feckless.
What did trump say to tucker carlson in an interview in July 2018.
“(They) are a very (head)strong people, they’re very aggressive as well. They can get really aggressive, and congratulations, you’re in world war three.”
To hell, hell with Europe !
Bankotsu
April 26, 2025 at 11:17 am
My thinking is that America should form alliance with Russia while EU form alliance with China. That makes more sense to me. Economically and strategically, these new alliances align.
Jim
April 26, 2025 at 11:22 am
I appreciate the discussion of Mr. Michta, and his describing the undertow of political friction between the United States and Europe.
The European leaders’ subordinate political role to the United States has left them chaffing for decades, but not for ideological reasons, but rather for the mundane and understandable reasons of ego, power, and sense of national pride of their respective countries.
The Ukraine war has exacerbated these sentiments.
Europe was wary and apprehensive as the war approached, not being faced with war on the European Continent since WWII… but something snapped, on the eve of the invasion European leaders were giddy with excitement at the prospect of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
It’s been a sobering experience for European leaders.
“… of the plans of mice & men.”
In a sense, I can’t blame them, a war on their own continent and they are reduced to spectators. This can’t leave them feeling empowered & dignified.
President Trump has to recognize it’s not only Russia and Ukraine who have to be politically messaged and their egos soothed.
United States diplomacy towards Europe needs to take into account the fragile sense of self European leaders have exhibited and believe it or not work to help rebuild their self-confidence.
For this is not an ideological division as claimed by Mr. Michta but a division based on Europe struggling to find its place in a Multipolar World where as a continent and Civilization which once ruled the World, now finds itself being a mere spectator to a war on their very own soil.
But their present course of conduct will only emphasize their powerlessness… big mistake.
The U. S. needs to take these considerations into account and work with Europe to help them find their proper place in the new world order.
Europe is feeling left behind and they are chaffing as a result… the frenzy of meetings and declarations are the symptoms of a European leadership suffering a crisis of confidence.
… these human feelings have to be taken into account in United States/ European diplomacy.
Craig Cruden
April 26, 2025 at 12:02 pm
US has had a policy of making European nations an extension of central US — with limited ability to act independent of the United States (through encouraging specialization – leaving the only player US being able to act independently). Whether NATO survives or not, the rest of NATO has to move to being able to act independent of the US and must not put all it’s eggs into American military infrastructure. We have found that when the interests no longer align as in Ukraine that being to dependent on the US may lead to hardware purchased from the US ceasing to function fully or cutting off of servicing. This will of course mean an increase in spending across the European countries, with less dependence on the United States. United States has been indicating through policy papers that they won’t necessarily abide by Article 5, and without that trust – continuing NATO with US…. is delusional.
Swamplaw Yankee
April 26, 2025 at 1:34 pm
Divorce NORAD Canada: Big Senior Fella!
Uncle Mike forgets there is a federal election in Canada right now: this instant. Uncle Mike and 100% of the Yankee MSM pretend there is zero Putin FSB or Zi secret triad agent penetration in every agency inside Canada! Nothing to see there is the alphabet phony war purpetrated by the CBC MSM on the ignorant Doodle Dandy.
So, Uncle Mike: who in Canada want a 2% GNP for defence right now: Nobody. Nope. zip. The leftie pinkoe politicals do not even want to discuss a “future” date.
So, who in Canada wants 3% real soon? Nobody. So who in Canada wants 4% say in 12 months? Lock up that terrorist pushing 4% as if they were F—ing dangerous truckers!!
Now, we have the fellows + professors out of their pinkoe holes. Zero defence increase for the future. If the Liberals get elected: never. Every Liberal knows full well that the MAGA elite pushing the Whackooff shill parrot stooges “Unilateral” World Tour will be a distant memory in 19 months. Trump will be long, long gone, a memory, when the leader elected in Canada next week will be playing “NO CASH’ for NATO game.
Let us hear who in comments states otherwise. Uncle Mike: Ideology away! -30-
Michael
April 27, 2025 at 2:25 am
” Most importantly, what has not received sufficient attention in US media is how European states see their own policy choices in light of the US realignment of its Russia policy and what is driving Europe to make them. ”
You are missing a big point here – the vast majority of the US does not want to partner up with russia. The policy choices made in Europe are the result of of a traitor president acting in bad faith against his own country. Case in point: the US siding with russia, north korea and a few other rather questionable countries on giving Crimea to russia – neither Cina nor Iran agrees with this, which shows the abyss trump has thrown the US into.
Furthermore, the MAGA power base you mentioned is slim and does not reflect the US electorate nor the values of the vast majority. I believe you are aware of the fact that less than a third of the electorate voted for trump? And of that slighlly-less-than-a-third how many voted for cheaper eggs? Well, they are waking up to their mistake.
In the end, if you take ”America First” too far, you wind up as ”America Alone”.
s
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 am
That there are empires in conflict is eternal.
That the Yankee empire has made mis-steps is a new phenomena. The empire was finally activated by the Japanese empire on Dec 7th 41. All thank the emperor! As Yankee yellooou belliiiies ruled supreme, the cowards of this empire shamelessly stared down Newfoundlanders and Canucks for three years of total war! the USA would have been a cowards paradise for 2 more years till 1944, but the Emperor handed the cowards the samurie sword of honour.
Canada activated its industry and was able to go into a war production mode. The USA industry slept + cuddled very closely with its southern Amigo: doing zip all! Or course, the huge Mexican population shortly produced the most advanced WW2 submarines, bombers and tanks that rivaled the King Tiger of the NAZI. Not!
The best was when the Yankee cowards looked maimed Canucks and Newfoundlander veterans in the eye and demanded courtesy, civility and demeanour. The Yankees were, of course, southern neighbours!
Since then, the novice Yankee empire has created havoc world wide. The result: a multitude of once hidden barbaric and primitive urges in the unconscious of ethnic peoples ( all those enslaved inside the orc muscovite empire) became tangible and expressed themselves in behaviour in Ukraine just as savage and loathsome as that of the Russian orc elites: also Serbians a few years earlier.
The Doodle Dandy was so screwed up in Yugoslavia. The Serbians fantasized for 600 years about reversing their defeat by Muslims in the Battle of Kosovo. The Muslims had battled their way thru Ukraine right to the walls of Vienna. For Yankees, the Doodle Dandy clearly understood that old reality as the battle in Kosovo took place in 1389. That was before Columbus hit the shores of America.
So, the inner beltway Yankee was able to understand this since 1389. Not!
The same with Ukraine. The 1616 Ukrainian father had enough of wanton destruction, butchery and sex trade trafficking of children by the peasant russian neighbour. The Ukrainian fathers taxed so as to create a navy to challenge the Muslim sex trade fleet which they defeated. The Ukrainians went on to overpower the Muslim sex trade fort of Caffe, filled with dungeons, to which the peasant russians sex trade caravans delivered the kidnapped Ukrainian minors. Then, the Ukrainian fathers went after the gold filled caravans that fled back to the peasant russians hangouts.
The very recent Doodle Dandy can not understand this eternal battle from primordial times! Ukrainians well understand the forces in the orc russian mind that ordinarily inhibit the need to use a neighbour sexually without consent, this inhibition of ancient aggressiveness “cease to operate:, orcs tend to abandon all restraint and reveal themselves “as savage beasts to whom sparing their own kind is alien”.
That the current stooges Whackoff wierdo show goes off with shill parrot agit prop out of the Putin beast’s unconsciousness is a UNESCO world shame show!
This started in 2014 with the OBAMA cabal unilateral sell out of Ukraine’s children to the Putin sex trade tradition. The OBAMA democrat machine green lighted to Putin the free, no-cost, give away of ancient Ukrainian Crimea and the Ukrainian families. Ecstatic Putin loved this gift + immediately sent in “little green groomers” in force. Local russian orc muscovite followers betrayed their homeland and pointed out little girls and boys that the groomers kidnapped for the Moscow elites. Planes air lifted the sex trade victims to numerous very needy russian language teachers and owners of unused table tops.
That is the ideological conflict the above article avoids. The author refuses to demand the $10,000,000 prepayment in gold bullion to each and every kidnapped child. The author goose marches in step with the stooges in Whackoff weirdoes. The MAGA elite message of 2025 is that there is no mention of compensation and reparation from Putin’s orcs for ten years of table top dancing and cultural beastiality! The USA self demands to sink to the level of ancient sex trade mentality.
That is the ideology, Uncle Mike refers to, bubbling in the subconscious or sub basement of pizza joints in inner beltway Washington. -30-
Richard LaBranche
April 27, 2025 at 8:25 am
I totally agree with regard to the ideological war. But it is fairly basic in its social dynamic. Ideologically, the US covets free speech as it is part of our first amendment, of our constitution. Whereas, the Europeans want to squelch free speech, ie, the UK PM, arrest people who disagrees with him on social media. Number two, The US wants to do away with the cancerous and racist ideology of DEI. Merit and merit alone is what is most important. Nobody who works hard, really cares what you look like, what your religion is, what your gender is, etc. What is most important is what you do and how hard you work towards excellence. And finally, the US wants to control its borders, unlike the European Union. There are other pertinent, ideological divides, but those in my view, are the biggest. Those are three fundamental ideological differences. The reason the US is pushing against European values that are contrary to ours is because we have been paying for your defense for decades. American tax dollars defend Europe. How many European tax dollars defend the US?…ZERO. While we pay 3 to 4% of our GDP for Defense, the Europeans, in many cases pay less than 1% in their own defense (Germany), all while criticizing the United States, the very people who defend them. Then the Europeans further insult us by purchasing their energy from places like Russia, who are the very people they are asking the US to defend them from. If the Europeans can’t see our point, and are unwilling to pay equally for their own defense or even close, for their own defense, why should we even care? I’m so tired of the feckless DEI lefty elites in Europe who criticize the US, when we have been paying for their defense for decades. Grow up. Currently, Europe is just a drain on American taxpayer dollars and we’re tired of it, and especially tired of the criticism. I don’t believe the Europeans are friendly in any regard to the United States. So to say we are friends is really a stretch, because the US doesn’t or hasn’t criticized the Europeans, the way the Europeans criticize the US. If you don’t like it, it’s time you pay for your own defense and leave us alone.
Michael
April 27, 2025 at 12:44 pm
Richard, you got some facts and figures messed up there.
But there is more to the story too – the US used to be quite adamant that Europe not have too much defensive power (lessons learned after two world war). I remember Madeleine Albright being very clear that there would be no joint European defense cooperation outside of NATO. Michta knows this, but why ruin a good story with a more faceted view?
But the worst decline in European defense spending seems to have come after 1991 when soviet fell apart. Only the Finns and the Baltic states seemed to remember what russia is all about.
That situation is very different now. But hey, why complicate a oversimplified story with facts? 🙄
53b4f7829e
April 27, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Richard La Branche
The American Constitution is not recognized outside America
Your Constitution cannot be forced upon us
Ol' Timer
April 27, 2025 at 2:47 pm
NATO will survive unless European countries insist that shirking their duty, insulting Americans, and doing nothing for themselves is a winning strategy. Hopefully they speak to a wide-enough variety of Americans to see what a flawed strategy that is.
Trump is welcome to try to peel Russia away from China. Others before him have tried (e.g., Obama). They probably failed because they offered Russia nothing worth having: the good opinion of the “international community” is pretty thin stuff.
Placating Putin on Ukraine was probably intended to make room for some valuable horsetrading. Unfortunately, Putin wants far more in Ukraine and around the world than what many of Putin’s English-speaking propagandists say they want. Putin is reckless to try for so much but who will contradict a dictator surrounded by a clique of old KGB officers?
Because of Trump’s reasonable distrust of the foreign policy blob and the deep state, he just needs to try for himself so he can see for himself. We owe him that much.
As for peeling Russia away from China, I only see that happening after Putin makes Russia so indebted to China that the pride of the Russian people rebels at their country being turned into China’s vassal (e.g., an unconscionable percentage of national income going to pay Chinese creditors rather than the widows, orphans, and elderly parents of dead Russian soldiers).
When that day comes, the West should consider welcoming Russia back into Europe.
Michael
April 28, 2025 at 3:56 am
” Because of Trump’s reasonable distrust of the foreign policy blob and the deep state, he just needs to try for himself so he can see for himself. We owe him that much.”
We gave him his chance on egg prices. This is much more complicated. If he couldn’t do what he said he’d do on (what he said was ) the easy stuff, we don’t owe him anything more.
Michael McCaffery
April 28, 2025 at 9:39 am
Clinton and Albright fundamentally undermined NATO through overexpansion. The notion that American kids should give their lives for obscure Montenegro or spoiled Spain was always absurd. Now we witness Euro-bullies suppressing their own people over speech and elections. How would we react to a Russian-supported insurgency in Romania? Iranians in Albania? Turks in Macedonia? They let a lot of Middle Easterners in. What if they take up arms?
chrisford1
April 28, 2025 at 8:24 pm
All very good questions and Ursula Won-Der Lyin’ a never elected unwanted Angela Merkel castoff forgets that “Her” Europe ruled by her in Brussels through the EU is simply a pile of nations which through the aggressive unthinkingly done NATO March East and hyperexpansion to cruddy little nations acting now like yipping poodles hiding behind bigger dogs. Places like Nazi Barbie Doll Kaja Kalla’s Estonia. Denmark that stripped Greenland defenseless decades back and then gave all Denmark’s F-16s, artillery and AAA to PM Mette Fredericksen’s “mancrush” the little Jewish green goblin.
Poland is convinced that if they start WW3, all of NATO is compelled to join in WW3. They, being Poles, have been very slow to realize the USA, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Hungary, and the People but not leadership in Germany – have no intent t join in some 3 Musketeers Article 5 “One or All and All for One” sloganeering.
Poland, the Baltics, Denmark, and the UK are taking a Coalition of the Willing clown show against Russia to die in combat. Rest of NATO will pass and correctly say they have no duty to die for Poland starting another World War.
Tim
April 28, 2025 at 10:34 am
Everyone is happy, even gleeful, with the existing world order – as long as we’re paying the bills. Just so long as we pay the overwhelming amount needed for NATO, so long as the Europeans get to sit back and relax and let us do all the heavy lifting, and so long as we get shafted on tariffs – all is wonderful!
But the second we ask for fairness: oh no! you’re destroying the “rules-based order”! oh no!!
We’ve let Canada and the Europeans play us for suckers for way too long. Let them worry about their own defense. They can certainly afford it – NATO exclusive of the US includes four of the world’s ten largest economies, eight of the world’s twenty largest economies, and two nuclear-armed nations.
For over seventy years we’ve risked nuclear war on their behalf, and (my personal favorite) all the while they’ve made a national sport of mocking America and all things American.
Forget them.
Richard Hall
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 am
A surplus of information has been written about this subject, but none better than Dr. Michta’s piece. I hope the editorial staff at The Economist takes note of this objective, fact-based reporting.
RTColorado
April 28, 2025 at 4:37 pm
This Nato fallout argument is just like that old American beer commercial “Tastes Great, Less Filling”. Except “it’s Europe’s fault, it’s America’s fault”. What we know for sure is we don’t really care anymore. America has poured billions of dollars into defending Ukraine and trillions into defending Europe so there is an argument to be made that the investment is worth maintaining. There is also the opposite argument of knowing when to “cut bait” and move on. There is the issue of a new invigorated NATO with Sweden and Finland joining but that hinges somewhat on continued US support of NATO. I suspect that Sweden and Finland might rethink that decision with the US withdrawing it’s naval support which along with it’s air support which are the two reasons to join up with NATO. There is also Poland to think about. Poland has been a worthy ally, more than can be said about 90% of NATO, Is the US ready to leave Poland hanging out to swing in the breeze? If it were simply the Germans, the French and the other traditional NATO partners…I’d say…Aloha nui loa. but there’s Sweden, Finland and Poland to think about and I feel they deserve better than to be left hanging like that.
Scout
April 29, 2025 at 7:50 am
This war needs to end. But not with a surrender to the Russians. It needs to end so the Ukrainians can keep their sovereignty. While Ukraine doesn’t have the personnel to take back what they lost, they have retained 85% of their country and shouldn’t have to give in to Vladimir Putin. That requires Ukraine BUYS arms from the West to ensure they can keep their sovereignty and defend themselves. It doesn’t require the U.S. to sell weapons, Europe can do that but if we’re going to make a mineral deal with the Ukrainians, it might be in U.S. interests to sell weapons to the Ukrainians and be involved in diplomacy to prevent another Russian despot from invading Ukraine in the future. If there is a ceasefire and subsequent peace treaty with Russia, you now have a 800 mile buffer zone between a NATO nation (Poland, Romania, Moldova) which prevents potential nuclear holocaust. If Ukraine understands they aren’t going to get their lost territory back & they can’t join NATO and Russia agrees to let Ukraine arm itself then peace is a real possibility. And then America can leave NATO honorably.
JOHN C ROHDE
April 29, 2025 at 1:49 pm
I say the USA is out of NATO. Few of the NATO members like or appreciate us. They refuse to pay their paltry “membership” fee. We fought two world wars to protect them. That bloody water is over the dam. Europe does not care.
Enjoy your islamists; your liberals. I’ll never need to learn Farsi or some arabian language. You will.
I’ll won’t visit your continent again.
Francis Maikisch
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 pm
We’ve saved Europe from themselves twice now at great cost. European countries are wealthy defense parasites. Spending little to nothing on their own defense while providing welfare benefits Americans can only dream of. Enough is enough. Besides, with the embrace of overt censorship and ignoring their peoples wishes, we no longer share the same values.
HAT451
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 pm
I especially agree where the author highlights the difference between the European the ruling class, and the people. The ruling class has a self-interest in maintaining power at what ever the cost is. We see that in the lawfare against populist candidates in both France and Rumania.
The European ruling class is aligned with the deep state, within the US. In the US, like in Europe the those in power did everything they could, in terms of lawfare within the US against popular candidate, President Trump, to be elected and serve within a second term.
The European Union is a conglomeration of many countries and regions, each with it’s own language, history, culture and interests. What makes sense for the two countries in the Iberian peninsula may not make sense for the three former Baltic sea bordering former USSR republics.
I also like what the author points out, regarding Nord Stream I & II, where during a short period of time there was a genesis of a formation of a regional economic collaboration between Russia and Germany. While this was beneficial on a regionally between Russia, Germany and the countries in between, this did undermine centralized authority of the European ruling class.
The best way to try to predict what will happen is study history, human nature, and accept on the ground reality. With that foundation, one can then start to extrapolate trends and from those trends somewhat accurately predict what will happen or not happen. Although not overly in depth, this article provides a great overview.
Thanks for the article.
Bertram
April 29, 2025 at 4:41 pm
Its heartening to see that the shut-ins and feeble minded are still able to communicate and express themselves in public forums.
The freshness of the views of the American yokels and their sense of self-importance and resentment is always worth a chuckle.
Voice of Reason
April 30, 2025 at 4:05 am
Dr. Michta should look harder. While the issue in the minds of men is certainly ideology, geographically and therefore geopolitically the ideological divide isn’t so much between Europe and America, it’s between America and the British Commonwealth.
Gary Foster
April 30, 2025 at 8:43 am
Bad for both sides you say? What’s bad for the American taxpayer is we were forced to bend over to european arrogance while Europe enjoyed an overly generous social welfare system. This has harmed everyday Americans badly. With this systemic theft by Europe is over it will benefit American taxpayer. This article is a classic elite globalist outlook. European values are not American values. Why should we support Europe in this way? Its madness. The coming financial crisis will force a recalibration of relations no matter what anyone thinks. There is no way things would or could return to Europe’s grift. Good riddance.