When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression. No one is quite sure who first said it, but it remains a reliable guide across human behaviour. It holds true for film critics used to saccharine India–Pakistan unity tropes in Bollywood. It holds true for journalists used to gliding through the corridors of power. And it holds truest for the former coloniser who cannot fathom, as Galileo once forced the world to admit, that the universe no longer revolves around their needs and desires. That discomfort was on loud display after the release of the new National Security Strategy, a document that treats Europe with barely any reverence and even less relevance. Gerald Knaus of the European Stability Initiative concluded that the US had become “a direct threat to European demo

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