DEI
This anti-meritocratic and anti-rational ideology is rather common in American culture. Europeans were never as invested in it, although there were political shifts toward DEI here and there, as far as I know. But it's great that Westerners support the rights of people regardless of who they love or what they look like.
soyboys
Let them be. But I would love Europeans to think on a scale of decades and centuries instead of competing in unsustainable generosity and unsustainable anti-militarism. I like the middle way philosophy. Militarism destroyed half of Europe in the XX century but anti-militarism can be destructive too.
When the USSR collapsed, everyone knew that the West and NATO were the most formidable powers. Then the Europeans spent years convincing Putin that they'd swallow everything and could only express laughable deep concern no matter what happened.
Let's see how American intrigues in Europe and with Putin end. Europe should wake up, that's true: its resources are enough to stop Putin by the hands of Ukrainians. Russia was a European country before the Bolsheviks. If Europe is strong and smart, Russia will return in one or another shape.