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But the US is a foreign adversary of the EU who has ruined the EU economy in the last three years and wants to wrestle away Greenland.

Half joking, but the US performs corporate espionage in the EU and certainly takes compromising material on EU politicians whenever it can get it.

The slavish adherence from EU NPC politicians (they are mediocre and no one knows how they manage to rise) to US directives has to have some reasons. Being compromised is one of those.

EU governments also spy in the US. Any government that isn't spying on their enemies and allies both is incompetent.

The reason that the EU "adheres to US directives" is mostly just a legacy of WWII and the Cold War, you don't really have to posit any kind of nefarious espionage scheme to explain why European countries want to stay connected to the US economy and military.

> none of them are foreign adversaries

From the US side it may look like that, but the EU doesn’t see it that way.

Until we ban Denmark as an "adversary" because they won't just hand over Greenland. Or Mexico for setting tarrifs against us (because we declared tarrifs first).

Lovely precedent we just set here.