We here inside the country definitely need to fight harder against this sentiment. A short decade ago, I would arguably count myself among them, albeit not in an interventionist sense, but in a hegemonic “It’s okay that we pay Europe’s way in defense; nothing bad or sapping of the EU’s independence could ever come of it!”

I… had a lot more faith in the modern American electorate before the first Trump administration.

Hegemony is unsafe and corrupting for all parties, and should be reduced wherever possible.