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'Backfired spectacularly': European officials reportedly now view US as an 'adversary' (www.rawstory.com)

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If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn't work, according to one senior diplomat.

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It didn't "backfire". The insults were the point. Why does whoever wrote this think he hoped to earn their respect when the trump regime has no respect for them and doesn't give a flying fuck what they think? They want fear, not respect.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That doesn't make sense. Nobody fears them here in Europe.

As the article said, this just led to European leaders intensifying the decoupling from dependencies onto the US, which makes its current bully administration less powerful and less able to hurt Europe.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hoping that friends of the resistance abroad boycott every American product that crosses their dash. I mean it, everything from Google to orange juice.

[–] argarath@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

We will ask American companies what they were doing in the 2020s just like we ask German companies what they were doing in the 1930s