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please ignore how europeans view the US
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@bronze yes, because for a long time it has. The kind of UMC GOP or democrat type that read FT or NYT or stuff like that cared about this, because they wanted to believe they were stewarding the future for the US
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@sickburnbro do they actually expect these lines to work on people?
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@bronze @sickburnbro They do and it does. They've fostered a belief that Europe doesn't pay it's fair share for it's defense and that the US is always stuck picking up the tab. Obviously this is most common with older people, but the apathetic younger generations that only have a surface level understanding and only when it's brought up in the news will tend to accept that reasoning.
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@NotImportant @bronze @sickburnbro i know friends that know and believe that