The American Question
What you are about to read has been a year in the making. To be totally honest, it is a lifetime in the making, because what transpired this year was merely the inevitable apogee of events which go back decades and which I have been observing most of my life. I could have published this sooner, but I’m grateful for biding my time. Every passing month of this year groaned under the weight of example after example, episode after episode, confirming these inescapable facts: the United States is the primary enemy of European civilisation, its influence on the nations of Europe has been disastrous, and the “American people” are, generally, no friends of Europe either.
For a writer and commentator, not much feels better than seeing your words proven relevant and true in your own time. This year’s events have vindicated much of what I wrote in the essays Globalism As Americanism, Trump & I, and Are Americans Europeans?, and much of what I have been saying for years through various other channels and platforms.
Trump’s second stint in the White House has been full of the expected boorish bravado, but a boorish bravado that came with some unexpected consequences. Trump’s huffing about annexing Canada, puffing about taking Greenland from Denmark “one way or another”, and whining about Europe treating the US “unfairly”, was met with frenzied adulation from the MAGA crowd, and, depressingly, even from numerous Canadians and Europeans. Brow-beaten and demoralised by their own governments, hoodwinked and manipulated by the American mediatic machine, these people actually think that the American “experiment” waddling over and consuming them like a plate of Freedom Fries would be a good thing. In reality, the last 80 years (at least) show that nothing good comes from hitching your fate to the United States, and the weeks following Trump’s reentry to the White House put Americans’ festering hatred of Europeans on full display, finally, for all to see. Or at least, for all those who are willing to see it.
Stimulated by Trump, JD (what a name for a statesman) Vance, Elon Musk, and their innumerable courtesans across social media, Americans’ long-repressed resentment and disdain towards the Old Continent and its people was finally released in a sickly orgasm of venomous insults and inane jingoism.
In brief, Americans’ honest appraisal of Europeans is this: they are simultaneously weak cucks who don’t have any firearms and allow their children to be raped by Muslim invaders while also being violent bloodthirsty savages who would be in a state of perpetual war were it not for the Pax Americana. Europeans are also lazy, good-for-nothing scroungers, bathing under the sun of “American protection” while enjoying free healthcare, siestas, and closing their shops on Sundays.
Since January 20th, Americans, from the Commander-in-Chief in the Oval Office (again, what ridiculous names), to the average Joe in his living room, have repeatedly proclaimed that Europeans are “bad allies”. Donald Trump, his administration, and that most loutish of all creatures, the American conservative media personality, have stoked this delusion. Trump himself has said on multiple occasions that the European Union was specifically created to take advantage of the United States. Every single one of these statements on Europe and her people is false, but before we dismantle them, a short history lesson is in order.