Eastern Europeans spent a long time under the thumb of the Soviet Union. They value freedom because they had to fight for it.
We, the US, have spoiled western Europe and made them dependent. They are behaving very much like spoiled brats biting the hands that have fed them for so many decades.
I have always thought that much of the hatred of the US comes as a result of them becoming dependent and resenting us.
Jealousy. To heck with them.
“I have always thought that much of the hatred of the US comes as a result of them becoming dependent and resenting us.”
I’d want to say that, but unfortunately, at least one French jerk recently blamed us Americans for not stopping Fascism from taking over France during the 1930s even though we had absolutely no real involvement either way in the Nazis occupying France (that being all on France, in particular the Vichy government that got swamped by Socialists, and possibly Britain). That was definitely not a time that Western Europe was “spoiled” by us Americans.
Whatever the case, we definitely need to do our part to stop the EU, and actually restore the various European countries to true greatness after World War I and possibly the French Revolution, not simply for America’s sake, but for Europe’s own sake as well. I don’t think we can expect a Charles Martel to take the lead anytime soon, and I fear that if we just wait things out, it will be far too late and Christendom will be permanently extinct.