If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn’t work, according to one senior diplomat.

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    2 months ago

    That doesn’t make sense. Nobody fears them here in Europe.

    As the article said, this just led to European leaders intensifying the decoupling from dependencies onto the US, which makes its current bully administration less powerful and less able to hurt Europe.

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      Hoping that friends of the resistance abroad boycott every American product that crosses their dash. I mean it, everything from Google to orange juice.

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        We will ask American companies what they were doing in the 2020s just like we ask German companies what they were doing in the 1930s