Us Europeans are being lorded over by the US and yet we don't have ban to electricity to follow the Amish way of life, just because that's the most backward part of the US.
We're now living in a time where the US is telling us to tank our economy time after time 'just to spite the enemy', while China's economy is growing 5+% per year.
That's not sustainable.
At some point the people of Europe will be looking up at China and Russia for having an industry and commerce instead of letting everything be bought out by the US.
Moreover, our human rights are extremely selective and are based on the protection of the two ruling classes of capitalism, the lawyer class and the merchant (aka as donor) class, having replaced the clergy and nobility that came before.
Human rights is just one way for the laywer class to justify their actions, which primarily serves the merchant class
On top of that, none of those in power are even in Europe anymore. The donors class is all (Anglo-)American and we're obligated to follow "international law" or "agreements with NATO" no matter what you supposedly voted for.
The moment competition shows up from China, in the US, not even the EU, then those rights the rest of us are supposed to have are immediately thrown out of the window, or for us Europeans, six months later.
Freedom of trade?
2000: "That's what has made the US the most powerful nation in the world!"
2025: "National security threat!" "IP theft!"
"No ZTE routers, Huawei phones, or inexpensive BYD cars, for you. Sorry."
Freedom of the press?
2000: "Freedom of speech what the US has and other countries don't."
2025: "Fake news!" "Ruzzian Chinese propaganda!"
"No more RT for you. Sorry. And soon we'll be curtailing TikTok (US), Xiaohongshu (Taiwan)
and any Asian cinema as well. (US)"
Human rights?
2000: "You're allowed to protest about anything." 2025: "Protesting genocide of Palestine by Israel is anti-semitic and thus illegal. (UK)"
This type of double standard attitude..
You didn't say this of NATO invading Yugoslavia did you?
Or for that matter Iraq, Afghanistan or Lybia.
Why not?
And the difference here is is that Russia isn't even demanding a full-on regime change for a minority of people unlike the US/NATO.
Russia just wanted the parts where a majority of people wants an out, to be able to step out, negotiations where Ukraine steps down on it's aggression against Russian minorities and promises not to use their country for nuclear missiles aimed at Russia in areas where Russian minorities live.
They're not accusing Ukraine of having weapons of mass destruction without proof.
Yes, the US with it's current concentration camps, legalized slavery in prisons, demanding peace prizes for conducting war against Venezuela among many many countries it invaded, tech oligarchs getting front seats and openly bragging about their political influence, openly bragging about supporting a genocide and calling anyone who protest that genocide peacefully terrorists, with a history of starting out with slave owners on stolen land, "demanding to be free", which meant not having to pay taxes for tea, then continue with hundreds of genocides and having a civil war over the discussion whether or not slavery was bad, is indeed nowhere near similar to a country that decided to dethrone their monarchs, install socialism, was a thriving success, but with fossil fuels still determining winners and losers in the 19th and 20th century it got corrupt, is now capitalist but slowly moving back leftwards with eyes more and more looking to the socialist China as not only has the fossil fuel world going through massive changes that benefited China, Russia and the Middle East more than the US, but the energy production as a whole is going through a revolution not seen since the industrial revolution that's pulling every country on the planet on a much more balanced scale.