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We are the International community just as much as our Governments, if not more.

You are probably overestimating how much thought everyone who expressed a disagreeable moral here gives to that issue. Theists are the last of my problems.

It was passively enabled though.

Exactly, you can conduct most interactions without problems and a good portion of them will even share the same views as me (a non-tankie-leftie).

The best depiction of what I mean on film has been given by Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist, in my opinion.

That is the kind of situation I prefigure whenever someone discloses faith to me, minus the tentacles.

I absolutely agree that they are easier to deal with than most, but we need to be aware that that happened by design. They shaped us into a block that has a headache whenever it is time to talk to anyone that is not them.

Is as if we were in a (imo toxic) relationship with the first person we ever kissed in high school.

We never had a healthy relationship with the USA in the last 80 years. We have no experience of what you are arguing for, especially not as a United Europe.

This is what we really disagree on, but I already explained my position.

I just tested Tesseract. Photon is WAY better.

I use Voyager on mobile.

I don't think we will be doing any of that. Also because it takes two to tango and, again, our efforts are best spent elsewhere.

And I don't think so, because what we have gotten addicted to is over reliance on a partner that has never really behaved as one. Now that we have this situation, we are looking around and rediscovering the extent of the influence and power we can have in relations with other actors.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5VYUewImUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHOSBKgM188

This is at all possible because USA is in shambles.

Read the last lines of my comment.

There are (commercial, trade, military, political) RELATIONSHIPS we are talking about. There is no switch to have them accepted or not, there is a continuous effort from both parties. And like any effort, it implies a cost. We have been in a toxic relationship with the USA for decades.

There is a chance for them to get better? Good for them, we will contemplate the possibility for that to be in our interest once I will see it happening.

In the meanwhile, having them showing their true face allows us to be lucid about the current state of affairs and redirecting our efforts elsewhere.