The American Deep State wanted the U.S. to be the unparalleled superpower. We share the blame for Europe's military weakness and woke culture (which we exported to Europe via Hollywood and other channels).
I disagree. Wokeness is a result of imported European socialism....Gramsci anyone? As for the Yurps' military weakness, it was not always so. Even in the 1980's, West Germany actually had a serious military. It was funded reasonably, it had modern weapons systems that worked and it probably would have given a good account of itself had worst come to worst. The rot set in when the Cold War ended and the Yurps decided they could just freeload off of America for their defense.....it helped to use that money to shore up their creaking social programs at home.