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Time to pick up the slack Europe. You spent decades shit talking the US, laughing at how much the US spends on defense, calling the US the "world police", demanding they close military bases, etc.

Now that the US is packing up and going home, the same people are screaming for the US to stay and continue being the exact thing they shit talked the US for.



You don't know if it's the same people. I highly doubt many of them are. It's true that "Anti-Americanism", or at least Anti-Jingoism, was en vogue for a while in Europe, but I never felt like it was more than a fringe opinion, and a lot of people spouted it to seem edgy.

Also, it's been a few decades. Things change and people are allowed to learn and adapt. I used to be a pacifist and proponent of demilitarisation until a few years ago. The world has changed since.




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