Why don't the yanks mind their own business?

[Flashman]

American foreign policy seems stuck in 'Cold War' mode at the moment. The Yanks being busy trying to roll back the Russkies from Syria and the Ukraine and wherever else the dirty Reds maybe lurking...

Part of the strategy to beat the Commie hordes in the good old days was to unite Europe. The CIA even formed the 'American Committee for a United Europe' to help make it happen.

Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs - Telegraph

DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence community ran a campaign in the Fifties and Sixties to build momentum for a united Europe. It funded and directed the European federalist movement

Old habits die hard.