EUROPE & THE USA: ARE THEY IN FOR A MERE LOVERS' TIFF OR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN?

When one side of a relationship starts to be seen as untrustworthy in the eyes of the other things tend to go downhill from that point on.

It appears that some monkey business is underway regarding the USA upping its purchases (by 40% +) of cheap Russian natural gas while pushing Europe to boycott that stuff and instead buy much more expensive U.S. LNG (Liquified Natural Gas).

This is beginning to sit rather badly with European consumers and taxpayers who are already starting to suffer from various other price hikes. They are beginning to wonder just how far has Trump's 'America First' been dumped by the Biden administration and to what degree only the name has changed. 

Relationships suffer when one side is playing fast and loose with what was supposed to be a union of equals. I say supposed to be but Europe, or 'Old Europe' as GW Bush called it when it wouldn't quite get into fervent war mode against America's regime change targets, has never quite had the 'Special Relationship' the USA purports to have with its blood(shedding) brother, the UK.

Eyes are narrowing as suspicion grows.

Of course it will take an enormous amount of effort that is clearly not yet there for the jilted lovers of the European Union hierarchy to extricate themselves from their relationship with North America. The strands of connection are deeply interwoven at all elite levels and even down to the most fundamental of structures via NATO, embassies, NGOs and much else besides. There are few signs that an out and out divorce is in the offing among the high mandarins of the EU dictatorship or its elected functionaries.

Many across Europe have abandoned mass media news on geopolitical subjects that tend only to reflect the talking points which aid western national interests. The regime change wars the U.S. coalitions have been involved in have not impressed them. The results have been in most cases quite catastrophic. This has not gone unnoticed. Neither has the fact that the USA and the UK were the main instigators of these examples of reckless state criminality and incompetence.

It's the people, not the politicians who are now much more likely to revolt. The man and woman on the streets of Paris, Berlin, Milan and, perhaps most obviously in Budapest, are beginning to smell a rat where only a rather insidious invisible snake existed before.

The people of Europe were relatively content to let things slide in the past. The USA's regime change wars did put a dent in the way many saw the USA. It's main partner in crime regarding those wars, the UK has now politically floated away from Europe Central so its influence has become minimal. Will the same fate await the USA as it proves to be deviously trying to shaft Europe for its own gain?

Perhaps the upcoming second round of the French presidential elections will provide a clue in this regard.

EUROPE & THE USA: ARE THEY IN FOR A MERE LOVERS' TIFF OR A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN?