It wouldn’t be such an issue if each OS didn’t have several design languages side by side.
Windows has 10 different design languages all still there in the OS. It should have stuck with MetroUI and finished updating everything to it, Fluent is an eyesore in my opinion.
MacOS can’t keep things consistent to save itself.
And Linux has KDE/Breeze and Gnome/Adwaita in their niches, with the older Windows 95 imitations still around.
Gotta help ourselves first. Why should they give aid for a fight we are unwilling to wage?
I hope that this is just a temporary setback in the long term. Europe and North America’s relationship is a unique one that would be terrible to loose.