(Thanks, m. :)

Reader m. writes:

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Divorce is never easy but sometimes you just have to let go.

From the Brookings Institute, no less, 2018. Doesn't get much more conservative than that.

Link https://www.brookings.edu/articles/europeans-want-to-break-up-with-america-theyd-do-so-at-their-peril/

The discord really goes back further than that though ..When the Berlin wall fell / the Minsk agreements stipulated that NATO was not to go into eastern Europe. Well they are there now. Obomba didn't do much of anything to improve the situation.His interests were decidedly all things Chinese. Silicon Valley just upped and moved there.Bet they have regrets now.The following quote describes how Europe felt about US in 2018.

"Goaded on by such hyperbole, some Europeans are making outlandish promises about their future. “At this point,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared last week in a speech to the Flemish parliament, “we have to replace the United States, which as an international actor has lost vigor, and because of it, in the long term, influence.”

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