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Thank you, America, for Andy Warhol, says Florian Illies in Die Zeit. “For the Big Mac and the iPhone, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, F Scott Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Edward Hopper & Levi’s 501s" “Now, goodbye.” It’s been a grand American epoch, which gave Europeans 100 years of security, pleasure, and stimulation. “Every good thing must end.” Listening to Trump, Vance, Pete Hegseth or Marco Rubio, the message is clear: “With friends like that, you don’t need enemies.”