>Europe is currently hosed because we made the mistake of trying to develop economies complementary to the US and china.

NO, it's hosed because it's not competitive and slept on the wheel at several key digital economical revolutions plus sleeping at the wheel at preventing obvious geopolitical issues (gas dependence to Russia, losing auto industry to China, losing semiconductor industry, losing SW industry, etc).

You can't be an economic leader if you keep losing on all fronts and only be a leader at how much welfare your spending.

> the mistaken belief we shared values and were partners.

We do share. US and a lot of latin america is mostly European immigrants and European culture, making our cultures are much more similar than the african and middle eastern ones the EU has been importing and adopting. Where we differ is that US still has free speech and isn't devolving into a stasi police state that arrests people for Tweets that the political establishment find uncomfortable.

> might actually leave us better off in the long run.

How? EU's economy has been pretty much stagnant since 2019 when you account for inflation loss.

> But don’t mistake the situation for lack of innovation of capability. Europe is currently adapting,

How? Where is Europe's Nvidia and AMD? Where is Europe's TSMC? ASML can't feed an entire continent.