@hj @bonifartius

> america's influence on the rest of the world.

Sounds like their problem, not mine. I'd suggest they push their politicians to push back a little harder, but that's their business.

> NATO vs Eastern Bloc

Until "performative yelling on Twitter because everything is so Important" started, you'd see Euros complain about US politics but nobody from outside the country yelled at me during an election about how to vote. Nobody *inside* for that matter: I was on Twitter during elections before that. Politics got really shrill around 2013.