The United States’ interest in Europe has been waning for the past thirty years and the US presidential election in November 2024 will not change this trend, Politico reported.
‘American interest in Europe has been waning for 30 years. None of the presidential candidates is likely to bring back the transatlantic heyday that was seen in the 1990s,’ Politico says.
According to the publication, the victory of the Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris for European countries is more favourable than the victory of Republican Donald Trump. However, the overall picture is as follows: Europe has become not as important for Washington as it used to be, the publication notes.
‘Aging and shriveling, allergic to power politics, capricious and risk-averse, it increasingly evokes in Americans not sympathy but merely mocking contempt,’ the article points out.
Politico added that Washington is reducing the number of troops in Europe, American diplomats do not learn European languages, but learn Chinese. But the most dangerous thing is that Europe ‘will not admit to itself that it is alone – and as a result continues to slumber, immobile and unable to act,’ the publication explained.
Joe Biden was the last American president who ‘realised the importance of Europe’, but even he gave priority to the Asia-Pacific region, Politico concluded.
Recall, earlier the head of European diplomacy Josep Barrel said that Washington is no longer ready to defend all NATO allies under any circumstances. In this regard, he called on the EU to strengthen its own defence capabilities.
