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The Europeans want it both ways: they want the US to pay for and be responsible for policing the world, but to do it the way the Europeans want with them free to criticize the US and act morally superior the whole time. This act has become utterly tiresome.

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> want the US to pay for and be responsible for policing the world

Not really convinced that it's that way round, that Europe actually wants much of this "policing" to be done at all rather than being dragged into it. Until Ukraine, which is the exact bit of world policing that Republicans no longer recognize as crime.

You're doing all of it right there.

You, a European, want to tell the US public how their resources are to be used, and when they don't agree with you then you act morally superior about it.

It's my freedom of speech to be morally superior about it.

> You, a European, want to tell the US public how their resources are to be used, and when they don't agree with you then you act morally superior about it.

As an American, I can confidently say that we do the exact same thing from the other perspective.

Not only that, which I agree with, but also consider the US demographics are extremely advantageous over other nations. There is a chance the US isn’t losing control but is pulling away because the rest of the world has increasingly less to offer it. The US is energy and food independent and with increased automation is on a path to industrial independence. As a small example, Chinese had thought they had the US on hook with rare earths, well it’s starting to look now like that threat led to Americans looking around for them and then discovering, oh wait, we do have them, let’s go dig them out, and in 5 years it’s possible the US will be rare earth independent. What happens when the US is increasingly independent and isolationist? do you really think that will be a problem for it? or instead a problem for others?

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