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In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand-new stereotype for America: not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American.
Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans—whatever images lingered from old American movies, the ones where the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and honor defeats treachery—those are shattered.
Whatever fond memories remain of the smiling GIs who marched into European cities in 1945, of the speeches that John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan made at the Berlin Wall, or of the crowds that once welcomed Barack Obama, those are also fading fast.
This is the new DNC talking point, expect to hear more of it.
The EU sure didn’t mind decades of "Brutal American’s" protecting them and paying the bills.
I suppose my feelings would be hurt, if I had any feelings toward the EU other than disgust.
The EU and much of the rest of the world sees US kindness as weakness and pockets to be picked.
The Marshall Plan for Europe ended up failing in the end given what the EU has become.
What was done with Japan post-war worked out much better, but they are a culturally different people.
