United States as a Rogue state

He maintained close ties with Epstein for years after Epstein was first imprisoned for sex crimes with minors. If you want to call that "naive", fair enough. I suspect others would be less generous.

Same applies to his comments praising Russian "restraint" in Ukraine.

Doesn't mean some of his criticism of the US isn't valid, but he strikes me as quite an unpleasant individual who is guided far more by ideology than any real interest in opposing power.

He right though.

The chickens are coming home to roost for Europe now.. delighted to see it.

EU is a failed institution and that will now be proven when he takes Greenland

They get to gloat. That's about it.

Would love it too but think what would happen: he'd leave NATO immediately and out of sheer spite would probably sign a cooperation treaty with Russia.

My question about Europe is: are we really working behind the scenes to try and establish independence from the US? Or just muddling through the next 3 years and hoping things get back to "normal" when Trump is gone?

The EU will be the rock on which Trump will fail. They are the only sane buffer zone between East and West now. When thinks get worse you will see Europe come together more. They did not throw Ireland under the bus during Brexit. I can see the UK talking anout coming back in 5-10 years. The GOP will be wiped out in November mid terms after yesterday's disgraceful carry on in Minneasota, I can't see how any Trump GOP backed candidates will get elected in swing or close states.

More MAGA sloganeering with no depth or detail whatsoever. America has the most covid deaths at over one million thanks in large part to the toxic imbecile being a key hub for misinformation and advocating injecting bleach.

I'll just dismiss the rest of these as being wrong since you seem to have done no research of any kind.

What would happen when they stopped laughing and said no, refuse to buy it ?

Merkel failed re migration, she did a poor job. Agree.

Covid-19: The EU faired best out of all the worlds trading blocs.

Russian situation: agree.

Gaza: agree, but EU sentiments are changing.

Brexit: I'm not sure how you think the EU fked up. It's the brits fault they left the EU. The EU supported Ireland and EU interests to be fair to them.

The EU does a lot of good, and bad/not so good.

Although the EU is not a perfect institution, it is leagues ahead of the sh1t heap across the Atlantic, and most of Asia.

NATO is practically non functioning as it is so that really isn't a factor.

If I was leader I wouldn't even interact with the man out of sheer spite.

Trump isn't playing the same game as everyone else - its time we recognised this and fought fire with fire.

The world is moving away from Western currencies in trade, it's been going on slowly for a while. Quite a lot of the global majority are now looking to trade in their own. They have set up payment systems to take away the risk of sanctions and disruption. It will become more normal in the next 5 years or so.

Measure it any way you want lad and you will get a similar output.

"In terms of quality of life, the US lags desperately behind Western Europe"

If you take the below source Italy is 21, America is 22, Singapore is 23, South Korea 27, UAW 28

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-of-life

You would swear the US is Guatemala the way people go on in here. No its the most prosperous country on earth with all the same social issues we even have here in Ireland minus the gun violence etc.

There's an opinion, on Reddit, that De Gaulle had the yanks tweaked back in the 40's as being imperialist bully buys. He pulled France out of NATO and developed an independent nuclear program in spite of their objections.