COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY NATALIE NOUGAYREDE IN THE
GUARDIAN
"After a year of
Trump, good news for Europe – he doesn’t care about us"
I have news for Ms. Nougayrède, virtually no one in America
cares about Europe.
Anyone who actually knows something about America and its
attitudes knows there is close to zero curiosity or interest in Europe, its
leaders, its problems, and its institutions.
The only interest in Europe found in Washington's corridors
of power is in keeping Europe occupied through the mechanism of NATO and in
keeping it from forming new bonds that might threaten some new independence
from Washington.
So long as the EU follows America's lead, which it does
today in all really consequential matters, then the EU is just fine.
The moment it does not, it is not fine.
Average Americans, it might surprise some Europeans, care
and know nothing of Europe, except as a two-week vacation destination for upper
middle-class people.
