Never trust the Americans: Europe feels cheated, humiliated, betrayed

When Joe Biden became President, he reassured Europe that he is going to reverse Trump's policy of tilting toward Asia-Pacific, and will revive the traditional American policy of considering Europe as the most important ally of America. However, the recent American actions completely belie America's assertions. America has just announced a trilateral security alliance, AUKUS, with the UK and Australia. The first action taken by this group is the shocking betrayal of France. Australia is scrapping a 43-billion-dollar nuclear submarine deal with France, and the US will now share its nuclear-powered submarine technology with Australia. Senior officials in Paris were outraged and accused the US of betrayal. It seems that Biden has delivered a fatal blow to the Trans-Atlantic Alliance. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian stated that this unilateral, brutal and unpredictable decision was very similar to what Mr. Trump was doing. This American policy makes it clear that while taking on its main adversary, China, Europe has been sidelined and left out. Europe has been down-graded as America is declaring that Asia-Pacific has become the most important area for it as far as its struggle to maintain its superpower status while its power and influence are generally perceived as declining. However, it continues to deceive Europe by pretending that it considers Europe as its main ally in the world.