from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 16 Feb 06:46
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/528928/a-relationship-on-the-rocks-europe-and-america-need-each-other-but-trust-is-gone
This year’s Munich Security Conference was milder than last year’s, but Donald Trump has fundamentally changed transatlantic ties.
European and American leaders spent three days pledging cooperation and offering to slap a new coat of paint on the façade of the transatlantic relationship. But the cracks are still showing.
The United States was less combative than a year ago in its showing at the Munich Security Conference, when Vice President JD Vance launched a scorching attack on Europe.
But the gathering showed that while the alliance continues to function, the old order that bound the two sides of the Atlantic for decades has broken down. There is no consensus on how the relationship can move forward given the regular seismic shocks the Trump administration revels in delivering to the system.
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Nobody needs america, and the only ones who haven’t figured that out yet are americans.
Yeah we need to divorce
Don’t forget Politico is owned by Springer. They are writing pro US Trump propaganda.
US needs Europe mostly for brain draining, borrowing capital and stealing ideas.
It’s so beyond “trust.”
The US election and political system is antiquated and broken. It is not representative of the populace and has been gamed into irrelevance by fascists.
The US is systemically unreliable for this reason.
The EU and the US don’t NEED eachother.
It’d be nice if they could be together, work together, trust together but since the US is now run by a narcissistic mobster wannabe with dementia, it’s a bit of a big ask for Europe, or anyone for that matter, to trust the US. Hell, after what the US pulled, nobody should ever trust the US ever again in its current shape and form
If the US were to change itself into a parliamentary democracy, and get rid of the current insane election systems, and implements strong laws to control the rich (implement wealth caps!) and curb fascism, you might get something stable enough to try again
That’s literally what the article is about.