Also Vatican 2, The Celtic Tiger and most of all, that fake hipness (which you’ve pointed out). The Irish used to be pro-America as well but now, despite the fact that their people still emigrate here for a better life, they hate us. They weirdly blame us for the IRA despite the fact it is an Irish terrorist organization that has slaughtered hundreds of their own people.
There’s something wrong at the heart of the West in this continual shifting of blame onto others for our own faults.
The USA was responsible for the so-called “Celtic Tiger”; it was US companies that went over there when they dropped their corporate tax rate to 12.5 percent. Foolishly getting rid of their own currency and switching to the euro undermined that. Most of the problems they blame the USA for they can instead blame on the EU, which they won’t leave.