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| The European Union: No Friend of the United States, Democracy, or Free Speech |
| 2025-07-11 |
| [AmericanThinker] The United States and the European Union (EU) are often portrayed as natural allies, bound by shared values, history, and mutual economic interests. Yet behind this facade lies the reality that the EU repeatedly acts to undermine American power, prosperity, and principles. Far from being a loyal friend, the EU is a strategic competitor, an economic rival, and a political bloc hostile to democracy and free speech. Moreover, U.S. leaders like Clinton, Obama, and Biden often aligned themselves closely with the EU and its globalist ideology, and, at least as seen from the British view, do so at the expense of our and American sovereignty, national interests, and constitutional freedoms. In doing so, these leaders facilitated not only the EU’s rise—nobody in Britain will forget Obama’s threat just before we voted to leave the rotten, corrupt EU—but also undermined the democratic foundations and free speech traditions valued by our conservative American friends. The EU is a supranational political entity with ambitions that run counter to American interests and the principles of self-governance. It is an organization that stifles democratic expression, disregards the will of the people in the member nations, and suppresses dissent. It has long used its regulatory clout to pursue policies that harm American industries, the most glaring example being the Airbus-Boeing dispute in which the EU provided illegal subsidies to Airbus, enabling it to undercut Boeing on the global stage. Despite WTO rulings condemning these subsidies, the EU has consistently prioritized protecting its own industries (mostly French and German) over fair competition. In the technology sector, the EU has waged regulatory warfare against American tech giants. Under the guise of privacy protection and consumer rights, it has implemented sweeping rules such as the General Data Protection Regulation and issued multi-billion-euro fines against U.S. companies, including Google, Amazon, and Apple. While concerns over data privacy are legitimate, the EU’s hypocritical regulatory approach is motivated by protectionism and a desire to weaken U.S. technological dominance. Beyond economics, the EU repeatedly seeks to position itself as a counterbalance to U.S. global leadership. During the 2003 Iraq War, key EU members like France and Germany led international opposition to the U.S.-led coalition, undermining American diplomatic efforts and fueling global anti-American sentiment. ...Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the EU’s trajectory is its hostility toward democracy and free speech, principles supposedly enshrined in Western political culture. While the EU lectures the world on human rights and democratic values, it has repeatedly shown disdain for democracy by ignoring or overturning referendum results and trying to change national election results. ...President Obama took Clinton’s globalist orientation to new heights. His presidency represented the most ideologically aligned American leadership the EU had ever encountered. Obama’s enthusiastic endorsement of the Paris Climate Accord, a framework largely shaped by EU priorities, exemplified his readiness to subordinate U.S. economic interests to globalist objectives by imposing burdensome environmental restrictions on American industry while giving major polluters like China and India a free pass. ...So, beneath the public declarations of partnership, the European Union has emerged as a strategic rival to the United States, a political entity hostile to democracy and free speech, and a promoter of globalist policies that erode national sovereignty. Friendship is measured not by shared platitudes but by respect for sovereignty, democracy, and liberty. By that measure, the EU is no friend of the United States, and neither were Clinton and Obama. |
| Posted by:Grom the Affective |
| #1 Forget Iran - send B-2s to Brussels. Pay me now or pay me later. We'll be at war with Europe within a generation, and better to strike now while they're weak. The pussies they have won't fight, but the Muslims they're raising will. |
| Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-11 10:26 |