Or, more currently, in Syria and Ukraine? How about Yemen?
It's a long list of multiple atrocities, destabilizations, assassinations, coups and war crimes of all kinds that they have committed.
What’s to like? Perhaps if you get off on seeing death and destruction in foreign lands (and sometimes in your own)?
But otherwise, what’s to like?
Yes, we like their movies, many of us like their burgers and so on, their celebrities.
But how many of us love their politicians, their no-neck generals or their often brutally merciless military. Needing death metal music, amphetamines and a wish to “Kill them all, let God sort them out!” Do we love that outside of a video game, the real thing, mangled bodies, slick coils of colon bursting from bellies, brains exposed, dead women and children?
Not much to like there is there?
Or is there? Our politicians seem to like the American elites just fine. Germany is almost entirely a base for the US Army. And in Britain the ‘special relationship’ seems sacrosanct. What is that about? Self-protection in an age when an invasion of Europe seems out of the question. If there is some kind of threat who would it come from?
From Russia with an economy the approximate size of Italy’s, no longer the mighty Soviet Union, outgunned and outspent on weaponry by NATO many times over? Hardly. Especially if you consider the firepower of all the countries of Europe combined and then add in that of the US.
So why the cleaving to the US for shelter when there appears to be no threat, for the US would not stand idly by while Europe was threatened, no matter by who and no matter whether formal pacts had been made?
Each year a poll is held worldwide asking the question “Which country poses the greatest threat to Mankind?”
The top answer is the same year after year : The United States of America.
So, at the very least there is a disconnect between everyday people and their elites.
And so it leads to an inevitable conclusion.
Most people are indeed anti-American elites.
And what’s wrong with that? Nothing. It is perfectly normal.
