The United States is a bully in a China shop and that China shop is the world. It constantly destabilizes the Middle East under false pretenses and lets Europe pick up the refugees. It brain drains and takes innovation to be commercialized. It makes money on the hard labor of others. So yes probably for the best for Europe to do what China is doing and decouple.

Specific examples: Francis Lowell stealing British Loom designs in 1800.

Bessemer steel process replicas. Bell vs European Telephone patents.

Radio: Marconi was initially backed in the US then Bell filed the patents.

Operation Paperclip and all that entails (thousands of German patents invalidated and filed in the US).

> The fact is Europe hasn't offered America much of anything other than a vacation spot over the last 100 years. And there's the cookie banners too.

https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=XCJWAtcZ0t633oLE

Spoken like someone who is utterly clueless about international relations.

And then there were those Romans, what have they ever done for us?

I am one hundred percent in favor of villains just saying that they are villains.