Comment by piva00

I don't understand this resentment you Americans have with Europe, there's plenty of technologies you depend on that have been developed by European countries and companies. Semi-conductors, advanced optics for military and scientific use, high-precision machinery for manufacturing of advanced materials (physically and chemically), pharmaceuticals, the list goes on and on.

European countries have been your allies for over 70 years, they've been molded by your policies on trade, to consume and to provide what you consumed.

And now you (and quite many others) come back to complain that you're being mocked? Yes, you are being mocked because your country behaves like a spoiled brat, a fickle-minded nation which only manages to measure "progress" through "how much money you make", a nation who decided to spread the motto "greed is good" without caring about your own citizens for the past 40+ years.

You do not survive alone, you cannot sustain your level of development without allies, and even adversaries, participating in the game you created to become a supremacy, and you are choosing to destroy this out of a sense of entitlement?

Your kind of comment is exactly why Americans are losing respect outside of your own borders, you are behaving as if the world was the same as in the 1980s.

The more I see this kind of comment the more I wish for the USA to meet its reckoning, to lose its status and meet reality. You're not what you once were, the greed game has eroded your society, your businesses, your infrastructure. Yes you are wealthy with some of the highest market cap companies in the world while having a sick, divided society, you fight amongst each other because unlimited greed will cause that: fractures, anger, and immense wealth for a lucky few.

You could be better yet you choose not to, repeatedly, and for what? More money? At some point that ends, it always ends...