I keep asking myself when will our political leaders face the reality that there is NO 'special relationship' and that the US is NOT our 'friend'. Woodrow Wilson made that plain in 1918/19 and even in WW2 the US was interested only in dismantling the European/British hegemony and replacing it with their own. Everything with the US is tra…
I keep asking myself when will our political leaders face the reality that there is NO 'special relationship' and that the US is NOT our 'friend'. Woodrow Wilson made that plain in 1918/19 and even in WW2 the US was interested only in dismantling the European/British hegemony and replacing it with their own. Everything with the US is transactional, even war, viz; their insistence on Ukraine signing away its assets in return for support. Mr Lewis is right, Europe is where our future lies, not as some chattel, or dependency of the US. We have nothing Trump wants, nothing but assets to be bought cheap and stripped out by his corporate donors to offer -- and they can do that without having to go through the bother of even pretending to 'negotiate' with us. This trying to sit astride the fence between the EU and the US will result only in humiliation.
I keep asking myself when will our political leaders face the reality that there is NO 'special relationship' and that the US is NOT our 'friend'. Woodrow Wilson made that plain in 1918/19 and even in WW2 the US was interested only in dismantling the European/British hegemony and replacing it with their own. Everything with the US is transactional, even war, viz; their insistence on Ukraine signing away its assets in return for support. Mr Lewis is right, Europe is where our future lies, not as some chattel, or dependency of the US. We have nothing Trump wants, nothing but assets to be bought cheap and stripped out by his corporate donors to offer -- and they can do that without having to go through the bother of even pretending to 'negotiate' with us. This trying to sit astride the fence between the EU and the US will result only in humiliation.