*bump*
To summarize it:
-> Europeans are ultra-liberal pacifistic surrender-loving appeaser-pussies and American conservatives hate them for being it.
-> Americans are warmonging "kill 'em all"-style hardline extremists and European leftists hate them for being it.
-> The Americans hate the Europeans for their hatred against America and the Europeans hate the Americans for their hatred against Europe.
-> Foreign policy decisions are derived from selfish motives in 99% of all cases.
-> America defeated Hitler and "defended" Europe for the following 60 years because it was in its own strategic interest (the Western Europeans benefited from it though).
-> When Europe is "begging" for assistance or is helping the United States (like Germany in Afghanistan or Poland in Iraq) this is the result of a selfish motivation too.
Conclusion: We hate each other and are articulating this mutual antipathy. However, most of the time it is in our own national interest to help each other. But this shouldn't be confused with sympathy or sentimentalism, but is the result of pure selfishness.
Is this an accurate depiction now?
