The US is no longer our ally

No more favors for the US. We are not on the same team anymore

All of us in the West, whether in Canada, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand have a long and strong relationship with the US based on shared values. We still share that friendship and shared values with half of the US population.

But half the US population are no longer our allies. And they are the Americans who now represent America to the world. An America that can no longer be our friend. It is an America trying through force and manipulation to take our territories, and which tries to manipulate our elections to put extreme right in power across Europe.

Those in official power in the US are now actively and openly courting far-right movements in the UK, Germany and France. They side with Putin against Ukraine and Europe. They engage in economic warfare against Canada to pursue a hostile takeover of a democratic, sovereign nation.

They demand Ukraine give conquered territory over to Russia because according to Trump "Russia fought hard to take that land." And what does Ukraine get in return? Nothing. No security guarantees. No peacekeepers. Not NATO membership.

The US is no longer a NATO ally but a Russian fifth column within NATO. Trump is a Kremlin asset and European leaders need to come to terms with this. It has hard to simple end a security framework that has existed for decades. It is the same reason we kept letting Hitler take countries in Europe. First Hitler took the Rhineland. Then Austria, later Sudetenland, before taking all of Czechoslovakia. Next came Memel region of Lithuania.

Europe kept dragging its feet because nobody wants the safe comfortable and predictable world that has existed end. We cling to what we know. Nobody wants to live through dramatical historical times. We want what we are accustomed to continuing.

This has been in the making for a long time. Leaders like Obama and Biden have lulled us into a false sense of security. But the writing has been on the wall ever since George W. Bush. I think many have forgotten just how bad the US was under the Bush years. It was a country actively pursuing torture of its enemies. Completely inhumane and cruel prison camps. Terror suspects sent to black sites for the worst kind of torture.

Read more: Getting Away with Torture

The US never apologized for any of this, despite countless innocent people who got tortured. They never apologized for calling us enemies in Europe for not supporting their illegal invasion. Weapons inspections clearly showed Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction. The US persisted in spreading lies, and the US media marched in lockstep as obedient "patriots" to the lies of the government.

I remember coming across this quote from famous Nazi Hermann Göring back in the Bush years. I didn't know it was from him. I thought it was a contemporary comment on George W. Bush politics.

“Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

― Hermann Göring, Germany Reborn

When I realized it was a quote by a Nazi of the Third Reich nearly 60 years ago, I had a chill down my spine. Why? Because the quote when I read it looked like such an accurate description of what was going on in the US at that time. I had seen how the American media and people had lost their minds. I was shocked and upset by the utter lack of critical thinking in the American media. What Bush was pushing was not getting any serious criticism. It was as if we in Europe and the US lived in entirely different worlds.