alt Hacker News> The EU decided to play the US and China against each other to improve its own standing, which is why the US is now moving away from the EU.
This is sanewashig this whole thing. The fact is, the US is moving away from the EU because Trump doesn't like democracies. It's that simple. You have a large percentage of your population in what is essentially a cult and you have givem them the reigns.
> This is sanewashig this whole thing.
This was being called back during the Biden admin and before Trump even ran again.
Back during the Obama admin, even!
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/no-piv...
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/us-pivot-asia/
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-biggest-...
If the US can't build strong coalitions with Europe, it wants to spend its energy elsewhere.
Even pop-geopolitik wonk Peter Zeihan was pointing this out during Covid. I can't find his videos, but this has been top of mind for a lot of people for a very long time. These are anti-Trump people, too.
Multipolarity means instability, violence, fights over resources, fights over trade. Post-WWII was unusually (relatively) stable.
The US can turtle up, just like it did before WWII. It doesn't share a land border with any other major powers, unlike European and Asian countries. It commands the two oceans on its sides (and soon Arctic), and doesn't need anyone else - this was the US' defense posture since its founding.