Comment by bulbar

There were general and abstract privacy threats. The current US administration however has managed to alienate the EU population as well as EU politicians.

Trump has basically ended the alliance between the western world and the US and everybody has started to built around that fact. Just one example is that the EU has finalized multiple huge trade contracts, some were in the making for decades.

I don't think the next US administration - if the US remains a democracy - will be able to fix that. The US lately has been very vocal that they don't want to be the center of the western world anymore and the western world got the message.

Reorganizing the post-WWII world order will take some time, of course, but I feel like the world is proceeding quite fast.