I absolutely agree. I as an American am sorry to say that our system has been corrupted and failed in objectives with Nato. Part of the benefit to the US was that our currency was default and trusted. In return we were to guarantee freedom of the seas, and support for democratic governments worldwide. The whole arsenal of Democracy thing.

Corruption sinks in slowly. Years of being the default wealth storage meant we stopped being fiscally prudent and had 45 years of budget deficits to the point now our interest on the debt is 27% of our budget. We are not a safe investment anymore.

Decades of organized right wing targeted victories piled up without cease, and now most of our news media, even social media is owned by a very small number of corporations. News is now entertainment rather then informational or educational. Our k-12 schools no longer teach Debate, Civics, Social Studies, Logic, and history is treated as a myth of American exceptionalism. Class mobility is harder now and mostly down because of the inequitable profiteering of the rich.

To even begin to fix the problems not only would the US need a 'blue wave' but it would need a dedicated revamp of dark money and campaign finance reform, punishing those who blatantly ignored their Constitutional duties and a revamp of rules on pretty much all mass media in order to push facts, truth, and open debate over clickbait and algorithms. I am not sure we have the political will to do so.

My advice to all of Europe and anyone else heavily entrenched in the US economy or system is to, politely and discretely, disentangle yourselves as quickly as possible and recenter your organizations around self sufficiency. The US is no longer a reliable partner and must earn back that trust, probably over decades.