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I don't know, it seems pretty clear to me that it's the US that has departed Western civilisation and become just another repressive country with a big military like Russia or China.

To some extent it's fine if you want become a shithole country like those mentioned, but to insist at the same time that you maintain membership of the West and retain its mantle as its leader (or even more laughable, as "leader of the free world", that's far too much. You're not a Western country. Culturally far, far closer to an eastern despotic one, these days.

> US has always been Europe's big brother

History began in 1945 to you?




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