[Skybird]

I absolutely understand it, and I see through it. You celebrate a holy mass that has nothing holy in it. You are too easily believing claimed stuff and think because something is written down a long time ago, things are like it says. I never was anti-American by the old idea of it, quite the opposite. But the existing reality of it more and more makes me an anti-American regarding the America that is. The difference between the idea and the reality - has become ever wider in the past ten, fifteeen, twenty years. You anbd me maybe cna agree on how it historivclaly wa smeant. But on the present state of things we cannot. And I do not think this trend will chnage over my lifetime. Indeed I think the trend will never reverse again, and the US will become more and more tyrannical.



You are too self-convinced, as a citgizen of the US I mean. But from outside your country's borders it is easier to see that this is no longer justified, since your supremacy does not base on justice or better moral example anymore, but bases on simple brute force. Thats all.



Sorry, but after the past years, the world has fundamentally changed its view of you again. You cannot seriously expect others do still think high of the US after the past years. Or maybe you can do, while others expect that for themselves as well: China, the EU, Russia. And you know how I think about the EU. Why should I think better of the US...???


The global post-WWII order is over. Its dead. NATO cannot be trusted to serve its original founding intention anymore. As far as I am concerned, I do not see the US as an ally anymore, nor a friend. Its an economic foe, and a political rival and foe. Nothing else than this. Major share of the credit for this is to be given to Trump, but not him alone, he is not the cause, but was made possible as a symptom by a longer lasting degenerative, corrosive process in the decades before.



"Nations have no friends. Nations have interests." (Jack Kornblum). And since half or full a year or so I indeed increasingly think that the changes in America forces us to orient ourselves closer towards the East indeed. That is the fruit of the seeds Trump has sown, and already Obama before him, but Trump really let go in sowing: loose all your friends, find plenty of new enemies. Enjoy. Soon it will be no longer your choice to opt for isolationism or not, but you will have no other choice than to accept it, since you have alienated all others. We will not do too well by appoeasing Russia and especialla China, and then Islam. But the US has plotted a course where it does not set itself apart as an alternative. Indeed nobody does spy on us as aggressively and invasively, as the US. A friend we cannot see in you anymore.