Is the US Europe’s friend…? More likely we’re alone amid enemies

It's been the case since 2018-19 (remember Macron's "NATO is brain dead..?) The simplistic propaganda "EU - weak, US - strong" has been the most effective hit-job against europeans. Europe is much stronger than US, RU and CN bootlickers insists it is

Still are. I'd say 4/5 of the political/academic elite in LT

Up till 2023 Kubilius was a vocal critic of European authonomy and strategic independence. For egzample here: (in Lithuanian, but AI translations give a picture) www.lrt.lt/naujienos/po...

the famous British soccer fan chant ‘No one likes us, we dont care’ has somehow become the leading idea behind US foreigh policy.

Weapons and intel that europeans are fully paying for with higely inflated prices. US has not been paying for anything for almost a year

Your point is convincing. There is a certain sense of sleepwalking, when elites say the right things (about drones, NATO and etc), put public money into the right things (while benefiting themselves in the process), but a big part of society does not think that war is a real possibility.

Thank you for the analysis. Do you think corruption would be a significant factor for European performance in a war? It is a factor for RU and UA, would Europe look better, as many pretend?

Relevant idea. No Poland, though?

Quite globalist by the looks of it

I agree with the semantic argument (yes, she didn't say that), but the overall message is not that far from the misleading headline: 'structural reasons are to blame for war (PL and the Baltics among them), but not me and Putin'. Come on. Orban seems happy about her, Putin will probably be too.

Should have typed sunk-cost fallacy, not sunken-cost fallacy. My mistake.