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Nearly half of EU citizens no longer see US as most important ally, survey shows (www.euronews.com)

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A new survey reveals EU citizens are growing more and more US-sceptic, and think it's time for the bloc to pursue its own foreign policy and reduce ties with Washington.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

MAGA/Trump winning in 2016 shocked us, to that point the US was seen as a weird but stable ally, we grew complacent since the US was run by predictable people, who's interest for their country mostly aligned with our interests.

Then a collected psychosis took over the US, MAGA, and with that came Trump, a president who is actively sabotaging their country for their own personal short term gains.

Now obviously those kinds of leaders are common, even in the West, but in general they do it quietly, while still appearing to care.

Trump came in and broke the rules, he pissed all over his country and it's allies (remember at the start of his presidency when there was this whole thing about him trying to establish dominance by squeezing the hands of other leaders when shaking their hands?), he pissed all over the environment, science and healthcare.

The unspoken rule was that, yeah idiots like that exists, but they never come to power.

Expect he did, and that showed the allies of the the US that the US is not as reliable as we thought.

The political ocean is storming, and the next guy to helm the U.S.S. USA. seems to think it is funny to cause wake and ride the most dangerous waves erratically.

I hope that the current administration manage to find a safe harbor before ending their shift despite that plenty of crew members are working on sabotaging the engine.