Lots of UK folks losing their minds that we have said we are neutral on the Falklands because apparently it is our duty as allies to scream at Argentina and tell them to back off. We should probably send our ships down there as well. It's really showing the disconnect with the US and Europe. Europe and the UK really don't understand that most Americans don't really care about them and the idea that we need to prop up their former empires for them when they want and turn a blind eye when they screw us over. They insist on us treating them as equals or really subservient to them because they can combine their little countries together and feel like they are more than they are.
The reality is we ask very little of Europe for what we provide and they weren't there for us when we asked. Denying us the use of their airspace was deeply insulting and they blow it off like it was no big deal. When you won't let us use your airspace or the bases we have in your country as we wish we aren't going to keep those bases there or at least in the size and scope we have had them. Screwing around with Diego Garcia was incredibly stupid as well. Europe is in for a lot of humbling in the coming years. Outside of ASML they don't even have much in the way of tech that's very important anymore as they have are being left in the dust with AI. We are also in the process of taking London's Finance and Insurance business from them.
Falklands is just the latest example of how the "Special Relationship" is changing and it isn't going to end well for them if they don't wake up to reality. Our incentive to help Europe keep their territories (esp in the Western Hemisphere) is basically nonexistent unless we get something in return. Bretton Woods is over as is the Cold War.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
