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by mopsi
39 days ago
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> I've had enough. Time for a Swiss foreign policy. George Washington was right: No foreign entanglements or peacetime alliances. We'll handle our continent, and you handle yours.
Cooperation with allies has lasted so long that privileges like US warplanes being able to fly through Europe or use European facilities have become the normal and expected state of affairs. The US president spent a year complaining that allies are useless freeloaders and that the US would be better off without them, but the moment the war with Iran started, he threatened allies like Spain with economic warfare for not allowing US warplanes to use Spanish airbases to attack Iran[1], and demanded that European and Asian navies secure cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz[2].The whole huffing and puffing about alliances and isolationism is just the US refusing to keep their side of the deal while demanding that partners continue serving the US interests. It's strange to observe how shell-shocked US representatives are when that performative isolationism is treated seriously by partners, and they actually start taking independent steps like investing in their weapons programmes (instead of buying American).[3] It's as if they were seeking emotional satisfaction from the performance and weren't ready for American influence to wane. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r1mzd8vygo [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/world/middleeast/trump-st... [3] https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/27/canada-chooses... |
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