Qwark said:
The USA wants to play a different role on the world stage. That is their rightful choice. It's a shame other countries can't seem to find that out. USA is no longer interested in a democratic world, it sees foreign affairs solely as a means for short term profits. It's about time the remaining free world sees that and acts accordingly, instead of hoping the US goes back to its old ways. In my eyes Europe is much more of a spineless (incompetent) coward than USA. They basically accepted Russia to invade Ukraine. They should have sent their best day one. Not there third best equipment day one thousand, after everything from the 50/70 was donated. The majority of Americans voted for him and Americans aren't suddenly going to think, we want to go back to Biden/Obama era. Nor should the world expect that and even if the USA goes back to those policies we now know that those are very temporarily. |
Europe isn't spineless, it's divided and hence unable to produce a strong response. It's an inherent downside of the way Europe does things (but it's not without its upsides as well). In the US, power is consolidated enough for the situation to be on the leader. Trump has all the power to handle the situation more gracefully, yet he chooses not to. In Europe, there simply isn't anyone that could do the same. Of course there's also the question of capability, which most of Europe has overlooked for decades.
