I absolutely agree that they are easier to deal with than most, but we need to be aware that that happened by design.
They shaped us into a block that has a headache whenever it is time to talk to anyone that is not them.
Is as if we were in a (imo toxic) relationship with the first person we ever kissed in high school.
I don’t necessarily disagree, although I don’t see it so extremely.
I also don’t think that in the worst case scenario where USA goes full backstab mode, we somehow get super tough and independent and magically make our own alternatives to everything they provide or find them elsewhere. It would be a massive long term economic and quality of life hit, there is no way around that.
Europe is also aging and the rest of the world is also slowly catching up and culturally and politically they are more different from us than USA.
I absolutely agree that they are easier to deal with than most, but we need to be aware that that happened by design. They shaped us into a block that has a headache whenever it is time to talk to anyone that is not them.
Is as if we were in a (imo toxic) relationship with the first person we ever kissed in high school.
I don’t necessarily disagree, although I don’t see it so extremely. I also don’t think that in the worst case scenario where USA goes full backstab mode, we somehow get super tough and independent and magically make our own alternatives to everything they provide or find them elsewhere. It would be a massive long term economic and quality of life hit, there is no way around that. Europe is also aging and the rest of the world is also slowly catching up and culturally and politically they are more different from us than USA.