Europeans are in some kind of historic paralytic mode. Unable to think that the Cold War ended over three decades ago. Unable to think that the North Atlantic Alliance, while barely serving short term interests now, is out dated. Unable to think that the chaos in their underbelly--the MENA region--only benefits the war mongers in Washington. Unable to think that the refugees from their underbelly have no where to go but to Europe. Unable to think that they too, like the Chinese, are a target of the American Neo Cons' manipulation of the Middle Eastern oil. Unable to think that the blowing up of the pipelines from Russia to Germany only benefited the Neo Cons in America but to the detriment of Europe.
Europe is just a 'jutting peninsula' of Asia, as the guy in my profile pic said a century and half ago. Europe should try to belong where it belongs!
@BHAN85
Just see a sovereign smart empire like USA, avoiding troubles in his neighborhood.
Last USA military adventure in America continent was Panama war in the 90s.
They learned the lesson, and they avoid touch their continent. They even tolerate Venezuela communism.
Make troubles to neighbors in a longterm is always a damage for the attacker itself.
To understand Europe suicidal behavior you must understand how corrupt European key powerful people obey USA orders.
Paul Craig Roberts explained in a post in his blog.
en.wikipedia.org
www.paulcraigroberts.org
The most obvious answer is that Washington has paid the Finish leaders to add to the pressure on the Kremlin by joining NATO. I have good reason to believe this. Years ago I was in the Pentagon in the office of a very high official being offered an important appointment. I used the opportunity to ask a question about something that had long puzzled me. How, I asked, does Washington manage to get foreign governments to support Washington’s interests at the expense of their own countries? “Money,” the high Pentagon official said. “You mean foreign aid,” I said. “No,” the official said, “we give the political leaders bags full of money. We own them. They report to us.”
It's the same that said the lover of Spanish king:
Corinna claims in podcast that Juan Carlos would ‘return home with bags full of cash’
by News Desk, 8th November 2022
The ex-mistress of Spain's former disgraced king Juan Carlos I, the Danish-German socialite and businesswoman, Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (also known ...
www.spainenglish.com
That's how USA achieves "allies" do suicidal stupid things.
The hope is: Only a few powerful people in European states are the corrupt, the rest middle-ranking are just deceived by USA lies.
By the other side another way of make a state do whatever USA wants is make that state dependent of USA for energy supply.
It's already happened with natural gas supply to Europe: Nordstream blasts, and sanctions to Russia.
And it also happened when France lost recently the control of Niger uranium supply (main source of electric energy for USA are nuclear plants, and they were highly dependent of Niger uranium).
Macron changed attitude towards NATO after that.