Nobody cares about Europe anymore. They hitched their star to unlimited Muslim immigration and destroyed many of their nations' societies. They only recently stepped up to rebuild NATO and assist Ukraine until Trump forced the issue.
The "nobody cares about Europe anymore", gives away a lot here. It's a sweeping statement to hide a personal moral problem.
What’s actually going on here is that you need to find a way to justify what Trump is doing. This story only works if Europe is portrayed as already lost.
If European societies are “destroyed,” then there’s no moral weight to threatening them, coercing them, or discarding alliances. If they broke faith first, then the U.S. bears no responsibility for acting like a bully.
That reframing isn’t an analysis of reality, it’s a way to avoid confronting the moral implications of endorsing force, intimidation, and collective punishment against allies.
The problem is that reality doesn’t cooperate with that story. Europe didn’t collapse. NATO wasn’t rebuilt out of fear of Trump. And pretending otherwise doesn’t make the consequences of this posture disappear, it just delays facing them.
The reality is that it’s the United States under Trump that is now openly threatening force, not against adversaries, but against long-standing allies that have stood with it for decades. That is a fundamental break from the post-war order the U.S. itself built and benefited from.
Recasting that shift as Europe’s failure, or blaming entire societies through sweeping and xenophobic generalizations, isn’t analysis , it’s a way to dull the moral discomfort that comes with endorsing coercion against partners rather than confronting the implications of that choice.
If “might makes right” is the standard being proposed, then it should be acknowledged honestly for what it is: the same logic used by Russia and China. Pretending it’s something else doesn’t make it principled, it just avoids owning it.
