"Pointing across the Atlantic Ocean has long been a favorite diversionary tactic of the European political elite when things start to deteriorate on the continent," writes the Brussels newspaper , whose Wednesday article Mandiner .
According to Politico
„Europeans have only themselves to blame for their industrial and strategic failures"
According to the paper, Europe's economy is declining, Europeans are increasingly restless, and there is one answer to the situation: pointing to America.
" Whether it's the war in Ukraine ( Washington shouldn't have expanded NATO ), natural disasters (too many American off-road vehicles are causing climate change) or the disappearance of French as a lingua franca (cultureless Hollywood), America is inevitably guilty" – the portal details.
According to the newspaper, for example
it is understandable that the Europeans are upset that the price of gas is four times the price of the American one", but
“no one told them to make themselves dependent on Russian gas or to shut down perfectly functioning nuclear plants (in fact, Washington told them not to for years)”
they write.
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