Washington has demonstrated beyond any doubt that its rift with Europe is irreversible, by deliberately choosing to go to war against Iran without consulting its European allies.
From a European perspective, the U.S. government's reasoning seems rather absurd. ..[o]rganizations like HateAid do not oppose free speech — they protect it.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.