[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Europeans suffer from fake superiority complex."

Another view:

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: X, 2 March 2025.

“Ask not of America what it can do for our security. Ask yourselves what we can do for our own security,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose country holds the EU presidency, said, paraphrasing a quote from U.S. President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in 1961.

EU needs to end its military dependency on the US and arm itself ‘to survive,’ says Tusk AP, 22 January 2025

Most of the Europeans we have known think "European leaders" are foolish and wannabees.

[dfwgator]

I don’t like Tusk but he gets it.

Poland learned their lesson in 1939 and 1945, on what relying on Britain and France would get them.