More Americans dead for Eurotrash. Washington and Jefferson warned us about Europe 220 years ago. Half the people on the his board would have voted for Adams and supported Hamilton.
Jefferson was prone to looking at geopolitics, even from the POV of a small and poor country, as the US was at the time. The bogeyman of his time was Bonaparte.
“It cannot be to our interest that all Europe should be reduced to a single monarchy.”
- Letters of Jefferson, to Thomas Lieper, Jan 1814.
Which was, btw, also the essence of British grand strategy, as Jefferson was also prone to point out.