Europe can
defend itself and does. One of the reasons that euro-weenies don't project power is a hangover from empire. One of the consequences of the USA entering WWII was their insistence on the colonial powers dismantling their empires.
You're asking to have it both ways.
Then there's the economic situation at the moment. The difference between Europe and the USA is that our political systems evolved over centuries, whilst the USA got a brand new shiny one from the off. That's why the USA is broadly more right wing than Europe.
As an aside, during the American Revolution, Paul Revere would never have said "The British are coming", as he
would have considered
himself British. Strange I know to the modern American ear but there we are. Rather he said "The Regulars are out".
The colonialists considered themselves the true heirs of the English Civil War a hundred years earliier.
Makes more sense if you think about it.

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