[RegulatorCountry]

It’ll fire up the authoritarian right and the totalitarian left in various European countries, who will unite to blame the United States. Not that they don’t already, and not that they’re altogether wrong, but it will ramp up to a new and dangerous level, more like sabre-rattling as they gain control of various governments, imho. Center-right coalitions and US-friendly governments as a whole will fall and be replaced by something decidedly less friendly.

[RayChuang88]

True, but the European then suddenly realize that they're at a potentially HUGE disadvantage compared to the USA: they don't have the wide range of resources that the USA can tap into, especially energy. It's then they realize Russia with its large oil and natural gas resources (Russia thinks there are huge oil and gas finds in that country yet to be tapped) could literally strangle Europe by cutting off natural gas and oil shipments from Russian soil--ouch!