> But I have to repeat that Europeans are absolutely delusional.

As a German, I find this very unfair. Most people in European countries are not delusional, but know very well how deep in the shit they and the countries in which they live are.

And, by the way: hardly any German person would tell how great things in Germany are. Many Germans are far too cynic to utter this kind of argument. These posts, in my experience, nearly always come from people from other countries.

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> Americans feel like they're living in a failing state heading into civil war and they're all going to die.

Except for "heading into civil war" and "we're all going to die", this is also how many Germans feel about their country.

In my feeling, the difference is rather that US-Americans are afraid to die because of this, while quite some Germans wouldn't really care if they all had to die in consideration of the mess everything is in.

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> Instead of propping them up to create the image of an international consensus, a failing US has just decided to treat Europe as a resource to be drained. Its only interest is to keep Europe alienated from China, who would also use them just as a resource to be drained.

This is exactly how a socially significant share (though very far from the majority) of people in Germany feel about the USA and China.