Europeans Projecting Power and Unity? Don’t Make Me Laugh

Asli Aydintasbas (@asliaydintasbas) is apparently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and was once a Washington Post Global Opinions columnist. So this is a person who has presumably spent some time on the Continent and is broadly familiar with the various nations of Europe and their cultures, or at least, what’s left of them.

On Monday, she took to X to point out how European leaders share meals. I’m not sure what she was implying, but here it is:

Europeans do it differently. The prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway over dinner. Doesn’t look like Mar-a-Lago — but this is Europeans projecting power and unity. pic.twitter.com/ParQWMMBYI

— asli aydintasbas (@asliaydintasbas) January 27, 2025

She writes:

Europeans do it differently. The prime ministers of Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway over dinner. Doesn’t look like Mar-a-Lago — but this is Europeans projecting power and unity.

To which I might reply:

Yes, this is true; Europeans do it differently. That’s because they aren’t big or bad enough to do it properly. Right, four Scandinavian prime ministers gathered in someone’s kitchen for an intimate little meal. I’m sure they talked some business while photo-opping; it would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall to hear what they were saying with regards to, oh, say, Greenland.

Here’s my question, though: Is this little intimate tête-à-tête supposed to be an admirable thing? Because, yes, that’s not the way America does things. That’s not the way we want to do things. If you don’t believe me, just ask our president.

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We don’t do things this way because we don’t have to. We are the big guys. We are Freedom, in a container marked “INDUSTRIAL-SCALE.” We’re the acme, the super-heavyweights, the global butt-kickers. We punch harder, talk louder, live larger, stand taller, and kick higher than anyone else on the planet. Europe might want to reflect on the fact that we bailed them out of all having to learn German in the last century, not once but twice. If it weren’t for the United States, when these PMs got together for their intimate supper, they would be eating sausage, sauerkraut and singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied.

We don’t do things this way because we don’t have to. Your European leaders fly commercial. Ours flies on Air Force One, that big, beautiful, American-made Boeing VC-25A with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA proudly painted on the side, because when Air Force One lands, America is there. Your leaders sit at a little table in someone’s kitchen. Our president has state dinners at the White House. And when your leaders travel by car, they’re probably driving themselves in a Saab sedan. Ours rides in the Tank, a massive, gas-guzzling Cadillac that’s armored against near-misses by nuclear weapons. What’s more, our president even takes the Tank with him when he visits your little countries, the only problem with that being that your little urban streets aren’t wide enough for a real presidential ride.

We are the big guys, Europe. We’re America, and if we took all of your little European countries and laid them all out in a row, it wouldn’t even give us room to park our trucks.

Best of all, we have something y’all can’t match: We have President Donald Trump. So step back, Europe. America is back, baby.

This seems appropriate.

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