[OldSmaj]

...Washington is one of Germany's closest allies, (but) public trust in the US has significantly eroded...

And we give a rat's ass because...?

[Capt. Tom]

...Washington is one of Germany's closest allies, (but) public trust in the US has significantly eroded...

And we give a rat's ass because...?

I resented for years the press pushing the idea on us Americans that these European countries opinions of us were important factors on how we should behave.

These are pissy ass defenseless low GDP countries now, and not the factors they were in ww2. -Tom