The U.S. has often been blessed with good leaders, but every now and then they get a bad one. While the U.S. might be one of the greatest countries for its own people, its foreign policy and its actions outside the U.S . are often the opposite. The Americans permit themselves to do to people outside its borders what they wouldn't dream of doing inside. If you search the entire globe, you will find only two foreign military occupations. They are both carried out either by the U.S. directly (Iraq) or indirectly (Palestine).

Iran is not a great country for its own people, but despite the rhetoric from Tehran, it is not occupying any foreign country nor is it supporting countries that are involved in occupying another people. This might be because it is not that powerful or because it is worried about the retaliation of powerful countries.

Europeans therefore feel that the threat from the foreign policy mistakes of the U.S. are a far greater threat to them because of the potential reaction of peoples and countries whom the U.S. has directly or indirectly affected.

So the danger of America, its unbridled power, and its appetite to interfere in foreign nations, concerns the Europeans who could be adversely affected by this.