Can you tell me what the foundations of western culture civilization are in your opinion? And what is that US provides that Europe needs to start paying for? Europe paid for all military hardware purchased from US and the promise of protection has always been paid for with numerous military bases on European soil that are used by US to project force over the rest of the world. Especially the middle east.

I don't know, it seems pretty clear to me that it's the US that has departed Western civilisation and become just another repressive country with a big military like Russia or China.

To some extent it's fine if you want become a shithole country like those mentioned, but to insist at the same time that you maintain membership of the West and retain its mantle as its leader (or even more laughable, as "leader of the free world", that's far too much. You're not a Western country. Culturally far, far closer to an eastern despotic one, these days.

> US has always been Europe's big brother

History began in 1945 to you?