Anti-Americanism is a mug’s game
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Maybe there is a simple reason why Donald Trump’s agenda is so hostile to Europe. Trump answers flattery. Europe offers her almost none.
Even when the European leaders are sometimes trying to massage the most difficult skin in the world, their society does not give any secret about their contempt. Among the voters in France, Germany and Spain, two-thirds say that Trump’s election The world has made less safeA number of Europe is too rough for Sycophy.
Trump, of course, notes this, just as he noticed the orange giant child bubble, which flew in 2019 on his state visit to London.
The temptation of Europeans is to go further. Not only to him but also America. It is a short jump to the US president as a dictatorial moron to dismantle the society elected. In February, Canadian Ice Hockey fans promoted the US National Annual. “Make America Remove” has made a great baseball cap. But otherwise, anti-Americanism has been prominent by its absence.
Compare this in the years when the president claimed that he had made a mistake when he falsified when the Americans were regularly ridiculed as fat, illiterate and arrogant. On vacation, New York had to personally feel responsible for war crimes. On the eve of the Iraq war, the Europeans were joking about the difference between the atmosphere and the Americans. Punchline. After a while, yogurt develops a certain culture.
The President of France, Jacques Chirac, loved to say that he had a simple principle in foreign affairs. “I see what Americans do and I’m doing the opposite. How did they laugh? This was Zenit not only by anti-American Islamist terrorism, but from Imperialist Latin American populists such as Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.
But the anti-Americanism was changed in 2025. Jokes about nationality are not so comfortable now. It is fairly steadfast in accusing citizens of their governments, especially if Americans who are most likely to face are disappointing Democrats.
Anyway, Netflix and social media have allied us all. You really can’t remove American culture when you choose to run out every day. Go to Paris today and see how easily people speak English. Go to London and puzzle with the number of NFL fans. Judging by JD Vance and Pete Hegseth’s signal messages, the Trump team is more anti-profound than Europeans anti-American.
The deportations were taken to another West Coast network by Elo Mushk X. Buyers of the European car boycott Tesla, but they will buy a good American alternative. Just as the most effective collections of Bush came from American film director Michael Moore, Trump and Mushk’s best criticisms will probably come from the United States. America is both thesis and antitrology.
The anti-Americanism does not fit the moment diplomatically. Trump has reconciled with one mode, which was fanatically anti-American under Bush, that is, Putin’s Russia and even make sporadic gestures Chavestha Venezuela. Europeans are unlikely to have an anti-imperial mood. They want American protection, not withdrawal.
Bush’s years class is that the presidential idiot is temporary. Five and a half years after Iraq invaded, America chose Barack Obama as president. Anti-Americanism is like amputating your broken leg, instead waiting for it to be treated.
But if it is wrong to contradict the Americans and their president, it is wrong to completely remove them. Trump reflects half of America. He reflects a society where the democratic majority is ready to tolerate the massive shots and warning political system. America provides so many of the world’s cultural background, sometimes we are sometimes mistaken for our country. That’s not, even when the Democrat is president.
Last Spring was the USA under the presidency of Joe Biden have seen unfavorable At least half of the public in Greece, Singapore and Australia, and in Britain and Canada by more than 40 percent. The next time, the questions ask the question, they will undoubtedly record the Western frustration.
Europeans and Canadians, etc., realize that we have our values and not to stand for them for a long time. Boycott Philadelphia Cream Cheese if it makes you feel better. But most of the Europeans see that times are now very serious for kneeling anti-prairies.
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