I believe it was a mistake to go poking Europe with a stick because there are 600 million people there. Most far better educated than us. They were perfectly contented to sleep in the then current global order, and willing to help with maintaining that order if called on in an emergency.
For some incomprehensible reason, we decide to go over there and poke that lion?
I don’t get it because I genuinely believe that Europe would be the best partner for the US. It’s not because I’m “good” or “bad,” but because I believe close relations with Europe are good for this republic. Now obviously, in the US at the moment, mine is not the consensus view. That’s fine. But I believe it’s gonna cost us.
China and the EU will become closer. All of Asia will begin to realize there is more to be gained by working together than working at odds with each other.
And heaven help the rest of the world if the Europeans, the Chinese, and the Africans ever figure out that if they work together they don’t really need the rest of us.
Interesting point of view. American perspective.