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 of 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.
The American Cries Out In Pain As He Strikes You
Those who believe in the Steven Spielberg version of history and view Americans as the angelic liberators of Europe may find it challenging to accept that the Yankee has long been the bane of Europe. Those who believe that America is The Greatest Country Ever In The History Of The World ™️ ©️ may baulk at the information presented in the rest of this text. Nevertheless, the evidence demands a verdict.
There are many assumptions we take for granted, many slogans and mottos we repeat without ever pausing to ask just what they mean. We talk of “Western civilisation” and “white unity”, we yearn for “no more brother wars”, and yet the United States has a long history of betraying and backstabbing Europe, the seat of “Western civilisation” and home of “white people”. At nigh every significant moment, especially since 1941, the United States has pursued its own interests while covertly sabotaging or openly siding against the nations of Europe, including and especially America’s so-called European allies.
After aiding and abetting agents of chaos such as the Bolsheviks, then invading Europe, then bombing hundreds of thousands of European civilians to death, then ensuring that nothing resembling traditional forms of European governance arose from the ashes but instead establishing Anglo-American liberal mercantilism throughout the desolate continent, then carrying out a “denazifying” fumigation (during which all of Europe’s remaining great men, the men who could have sowed the seeds of a strong Europe, were either executed or exiled under Washington’s orders), then settling down for a comfy 80-year-long military occupation, then tearing apart the European colonies in Africa by backing (along with the Soviet Union) every swarthy communist uprising, the United States proceeded to pump Europe full of the same toxic sludge that was oozing all throughout its own house too.
After World War Two, the United States would spend the rest of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century controlling and corrupting, sabotaging and subverting, back-stabbing and belittling, its dear European “allies”. Vassals, more like.
Against the will of almost every European, America played the leading role in establishing the European Union. Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims, this was not done so that Europe could take advantage of the United States, but rather so that the United States could take advantage of, and control, Europe. Over time, the erstwhile European powerhouses would become nothing more than American satrapies, and the leaders of those European nations would become evermore willing servants to Washington.
Thus, the United States has been able to syphon wealth and power away from what used to be thriving and intimidating competitors. BlackRock, JP Morgan, and other American private equity firms snap up Europe’s major assets, sending the profits back to America. American corporations pressure European regulatory policy to fall in line with American desires, eroding European nations’ ability to set their own policies. Whenever a European start-up gets too successful, especially in the tech industry, an American entity swoops in and acquires it. American donors represent the greatest source of funding for Europe’s “green” NGOs and human rights groups, thus enabling them to successfully lobby for deindustrialisation and the demographic destruction of Europe’s nations. Then, Americans gloat about how the “Europoors” are weak, have no tech sector, no start-ups, no resources, no future.
In its role as manager of Europe, the United States ensured that its “values” became the values of Europe, especially through the use of its mediatic and pop culture empire. Whether it was through American film festivals promoting multiracial coexistence in Estonia, or putting up money for musicals celebrating “diversity” in Ireland, or paying European cities to take in waves of so-called refugees, the United States slowly but surely remade almost all of Europe in its own disfigured image.
“But,” the American protests, “we shut that down now! Trump defunded USAID!” And? It’s not as if USAID was defunded for the benefit of Europeans anyway. America doesn’t do anything that does not benefit itself. USAID had its funding frozen because members of the Trump administration wanted and had promised to eliminate wasteful spending.
Rather than expecting a thank you, Americans should be apologising, but instead of pleading for forgiveness, Americans believe that it is Europeans who have been in the wrong, it is Europeans who owe them. One foul example of this happened not too long ago.
“For far too long,” posted Marco Rubio on X, “ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.
Today, [the State Department] will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.”
What a load of nonsense. “Far too long”? Rubio should be careful not to go too far back, because the farther back one goes, the more it becomes clear that it was the US State Department that was behind so much censorship in Europe and across the world. Mike Benz, a whistleblower and censorship vigilante, has documented this. Whatever the “European ideologues” did was simply in lockstep with the edicts coming from the citadel of the liberal, rules-based world order: Washington DC.
Is Marco Rubio going to punish the many Americans who pushed for censorship policies in Europe? Will he attempt to extradite Americans like Nina Jankowicz, who now works for a London-based NGO trying to cement “hate speech” laws and online censorship in Britain? No, Americans simply make a mess, blame someone else, then act sanctimonious about it all.
This delusion became starker and starker this year whenever the topics of NATO, Greenland, and the war in Ukraine arose.
As ever, Americans don’t know anything, even about their own country and their own government’s actions. It’s astonishing, and revolting, to see MAGA Americans actually believe that the near-century-long American military occupation of Europe has been some sort altruistic endeavour.
Let’s set the record straight. It was the United States itself that ensured that Europe would never have any significant military capabilities. It was the United States that posed the largest obstacle to De Gaulle’s plans for a nuclear and militarily independent France. It was the United States that, in 1992, laid out a plan to prevent European nations from developing their own security forces and keep them dependent on America.
This has been the American management of Europe for decades. Now, the MAGA retards whine about spending inequalities in NATO or in Ukraine (which don’t even exist: Europe has spent plenty, its investment equalling or surpassing that of the US). Perhaps Americans, both in government and in dive bars, have grown tired of being a pseudo-empire, especially one in decline, and like any empire in decline, they are now trying to squeeze every last coin from their far-flung subjects.
“Pay for your own defence! Strengthen your own militaries!” Uncle Sam says.
“Will do,” say the European vassals.
But what happened once the nations of Europe started to rearm? Uncle Sam cried: “Nooo! Not with your own weapons manufacturers!”
As ever, when Europeans try to stand on their own, or stand up to Washington, the Americans cry about it. In a year of astounding declarations from the MAGA crowd, JD Vance’s assertion that Europe should have done more to stop the Iraq war stands out as one of the most disgusting and mind-boggling.
Ignore all the huffing and puffing from the White House and the Pentagon. They have never cared about European security or independence. What they care about is being able to dump onto their European vassals the conflicts that the American deep state creates or allows to escalate, while making sure that the conflicts remain profitable for the American military-industrial complex. And once the European vassals start to comply, the MAGA sphere accuses them of trying to start World War Three.
Essentially, these Americans want to have their cake and eat it, then complain about how it tastes, even though they were the ones who made the cake in the first place. Perhaps that is giving them too much credit. These Americans don’t actually know anything. All they “know” is that USA! is the greatest country on earth, that America saved the world from the Nazis, and Israel is their greatest ally. Their ignorance is surpassed only by their arrogance, although both seem to have no limit.
As if it were not enough to have put up with these whinging cry-bullies, we also get to enjoy the constant, incessant American gloating at the demise of our countries caused by their country. As we proceed, keep in mind that all the barbs, attacks, insults, and smug sanctimonious revelry, come from Americans on the right, or what passes for the right in such a place.
Without fail, every time a European child gets raped or murdered by a migrant invader, every time there is a terrorist attack in a European city, every time a so-called refugee plows a vehicle into Europeans, there will be a swarm of Americans to piss on the dead bodies and defame Europeans.
And it doesn’t just come from anonymous accounts on social media platforms. These comments come from publicly facing “infotainers” with large audiences, writers, and politicians. The anons just make up the vast ranks of the infantry.
I could go on and on and on with these quotes and screenshots. These American outbursts of grotesque petty gloating in the wake of horrific violence against Europeans have become so common, netizens have created several memes which capture the phenomenon.
But where does this animosity come from? Imagine if Europeans on the right, Europeans who presumably stand with American patriots, who want white American conservatives to reclaim prominence in their country, who cheer for Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, responded to every instance of black-on-white crime or every story of some South American migrant killing a white American with the same shit-eating grins and disdain. It’s literally unthinkable.
And yet, that is exactly what Americans do again and again and again. Perhaps it is an expression of Americans’ despair at the state of their own country. Perhaps they really are so deluded that they cannot see that all of the ills that are befalling Europe already befell America. I think there is something else going on, too, though.
When Americans repeat over and over “The UK is conquered”, “Germany has fallen”, “European men are cucks”, “They should have never given up their guns. Serves them right”, “They voted for this”, what they are really doing is a form of virtue signalling for American conservatives.
It is their way of signalling their “masculinity” (in reality, the person posting or ranting into a microphone is, going by statistics, likely obese). But even further, it’s their way of demoralising America’s rivals/vassals and making them think they need more American influence (in reality American influence is what has murdered Europe).
Their chest-thumping bloviating also serves, therefore, as a type of marketing for America. Propagandise the country as a paradise even as it has been the epicentre of degeneracy and anti-whiteness, then they can all pat themselves on the back, have a chuckle, crack open another Bud Lite, and go back to watching college sportsball.
Simply put, this is not the behaviour of a friend. These people are not on Europeans’ side. They are at best unaware of Europe. Most of them couldn’t point to a European country that is not easily recognisable like France or Italy. They have no idea what is going on in the countries of Europe, no understanding of how the different nations of Europe live, no knowledge of what matters to them. At worst, they are indifferent or outright hostile to Europe.
“But,” the American protests, “that can’t be true. There are plenty of Americans who love Europe.” Yes, they love Europe as a place where they can go on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. It is a superficial love, which is to say, it is no love at all. I’ve been in the most idyllic of rural French villages with affluent American millennials from San Fransisco, and even they complained about the shops being closed on Sundays and afternoons. I’ve been in the glorious medieval cities of Italy with American tourists, and listened as they moaned about walking on the uneven cobblestone streets.
“But,” the American protests, “what about all the American white nationalists who admit that America has been a corrosive force in Europe? What about the Americans who are genuinely on Europeans’ side?” Unfortunately, they are too few. You can put all these Americans, the “good ones”, in a small room and still have plenty of space. I know. I’ve been in the room. And even amongst the more radical, nationalist, racially conscious American right, there are still flare-ups of that seething resentment and schadenfreude towards Europeans. You can still find, even amongst these Americans, that inane American jingoism and delusions of “American exceptionalism”. Usually, it takes a form and tone similar to those of the Nordicists, who believe in the superiority of northern Europeans, of whom “real Americans” are descended.
And if you stand up to these Americans, whether they be the normie conservative or the America First nationalist, as I have done, you can expect to be accused of causing “in-fighting” and be labelled “anti-American”. Funny. Is being “anti-American” supposed to be a bad thing?
The Ties That Bind
Even though I have long known that America and the nations of Europe are fundamentally different in so many areas, that Americans and Europeans have divergent interests, and that a huge portion of the American population doesn’t see itself as part of the European family tree at all, but rather despises Europeans the way a “transwoman” despises real women, I did not expect that all of this would surge to the forefront of 2025 and become the defining theme of the year. It’s no overstatement to put it that way. A few years ago and in the first few months of this year, I was pretty much alone in standing up to these American hypocrites and ignoramuses. I was the only one, it often felt, who was calling them out for their shameful behaviour whenever a European child was victimised by a migrant scumbag. However, as the months passed and this tension between America and Europe, and Americans and Europeans, burned hotter and hotter, more and more people started to notice it too, finally, and some even raised their voices with mine. It’s about damn time.
Many on the radical, dissident right will have come across names like Julius Evola, Martin Heidegger, Alain de Benoist, and their works, but it seems like few have actually taken the time to read, understand, internalise, and act upon what these men had to say about the United States and its relationship with Europe. To all those who would accuse me of being “anti-American” (again, as if it were a bad thing), I say that I am simply a student of the Nouvelle Droite and that even Americans such as Francis Yockey and Ezra Pound knew what I know, and said what I say, about America.
America has created a “civilisation” that represents an exact contradiction of the ancient European tradition. It has introduced the religion of praxis and productivity; it has put the quest for profit, great industrial production, and mechanical, visible, and quantitative achievements over any other interest. It has generated a soulless greatness of a purely technological and collective nature, lacking any background of transcendence, inner light, and true spirituality. America has built a society where man becomes a mere instrument of production and material productivity within a conformist social conglomerate.
-Julius Evola
Americanism is the pinnacle of nihilism.
-Martin Heidegger
When the ideal is the melting pot, there can be no unity of language, race, or culture. In short, unity cannot be based on a human factor. It is then necessarily based on a material factor, on things, because only things are common to all Americans: the American way of life is thus necessarily based on the possession of the same goods constituting standing.
-Alain de Benoist
The tragic fact is that the attenuation of the national instincts has proceeded so far that one cannot envisage how a Nationalist Revolution would be even possible in America.
-Francis Yockey
To want a democratic Europe is to want a Europe that is a satellite of the United States.
-Maurice Bardèche
Their observations and statements were true in their time, and have been proven true still. If anything, things have got worse, for their words and warnings were not heeded.
The time has come, then, to cut the ties that bind Europe to an abomination that not only has little in common with Europe, but has always despised Europe and its thrones, its altars, its traditions, and has pushed Europe to the brink of utter extinction. For my entire adult life, I have watched Europe become more and more Americanised—culturally, politically, economically, and now demographically; the final nail in the coffin. If Europe does not break away from the United States, it will die. It’s as simple as that.
These ties were roped around Europe forcibly, and it may be that by force they must be untied. Who in Europe has the backbone to admit this? The bureaucrats in Brussels are only standing up to America because Orange Man is in the White House. It’s all performance. They are nothing but hypocrites with the fortitude of a damp serviette. Suddenly they are against American influence, interference, meddling, control, intimidation, yet they were not only silent but complicit when America was doing all of those things under every previous president. They were all for American intrusion in European politics when it suited their ideological zealotry. They had no problem when American billionaires were financing their pet causes. Now they pretend like they care about European strength and sovereignty. Should the 2028 election result in a liberal-minded Democrat sitting in the Oval Office, which is not a remote possibility at all, the Eurocrats will go back to cheerfully doing America’s bidding.
Speaking of elections and America’s influence on European politics, it must be said that even cooperation with seemingly sympathetic Americans has become untenable and practically worthless. By schizophrenically slapping European countries with tariffs or threatening them with land grabs one day, then imploring European countries to save themselves from “going to hell” in a “civilisational collapse” due to mass immigration, the end result is that people in Europe are just going to distrust whatever comes out of Washington, as they should. What difference does it make if Trump says Europe needs to stop taking in so many third world migrants, but the next day he imposes a 107% tariff on Italian pasta? And that’s how he treats Italy, a loyal lapdog. That’s how he treats the country of his friend, Giorgia Meloni.
By antagonising European leaders, by implementing a policy that amounts to little more than “let’s trigger the libs”, Trump and Vance have allowed the Eurocrats to entrench themselves as the defenders of liberty and democracy. By playing pantomime villains, they have re-written the script and given Von Der Leyen, Rutte, Starmer, et al., the role of “good guys”. We saw this play out in Canada, where the liberal candidate won an election that should have gone to the conservative, but Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state, to impose huge tariffs on Canada if they didn’t do as he ordered, meant that Canadians rallied around the man they saw as a bulwark against Trump, rather than voting for the man they assumed would just be his lackey.
Something similar also happened in Germany. When Elon Musk started openly endorsing AfD, the party lost its appeal. Its standing dipped in the polls. Copy/pasting American populism onto Europe with slogans like “Make Europe Great Again” won’t appeal to any self-respecting European, who is first and foremost concerned with his own nation-state anyway, not a vague “Europe” (rightfully so). And it turns out, people don’t really like outsiders sticking their noses in, especially if those outsiders are unscrupulous people like so many in the MAGA sphere are.
Trump lives by “the art of the deal”. Perhaps he should try some “art of tact”, which is the ability to make a point without making an enemy. He hasn’t done this, however, and shows no signs of doing it ever. So we’re all left with what could have been. Under Trump, the US could have set a tone of nationalism, deportations, confidence, and strength, and invited the Eurocrats to join the fun. Instead, Trump and Co. have validated and amplified American resentment towards Europeans, and they have given the Eurocrats a reason to dig their heels in and double down on insane liberal progressivism. Maybe that was all part of the plan? After all, no one in the halls of American power really wants Europe to be strong anyway.
Thus, it is time for a separation. Unfortunately, the single greatest political development in Europe is happening while Europe is in the clutches of the weakest, most inept leaders she has ever seen. They will see to making Europe even more “diverse” and “inclusive” just to spite Trump. Even more unfortunately, the “right” in Europe doesn’t see America as the threat that it is, but rather wants to cuddle up to Uncle Sam more than ever. So, if the kosher right makes any gains, we can expect continued obsequious devotion to the regime on the Potomac, which means the flinging open of European markets to American slop, deregulation in several sectors in order to usher in inferior American products, and more Israeli-flag-waving displays of Zionism. And then people will scratch their heads and wonder why the European “right” fails to gain more than 30% of the vote in elections.
At the end of the day, “America First” isn’t just a slogan. If Americans want to pursue the objectives implicit in those two words, fine by me, but let’s not pretend that America’s interests are also Italy’s interests, or France’s, or Germany’s, or Slovenia’s, or Ukraine’s. What’s good for America isn’t necessarily good for anyone else, and decades of evidence and experience attest to that.
“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal,” said Henry Kissinger. Truer words have never been spoken. We’ve had so many years to learn that lesson. Let’s not wait any more.