Should Europe worry about JD Vance and Pete Hegseth?

It's difficult to remember a time when the most senior officials in a US administration were so rude and antagonistic about Europe. Both Vice President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth vented their dislike of all things Europe in the now notorious Signal group chat about bombing the Houthis. Hegseth said he loathed Europe. It sounds like he needs to spend time with his family in, say, Florence or Paris or Barcelona or take in a show in London and go down the Rhine in a small cruise liner, and perhaps then he might warm towards us. We're really not that bad and, as far as we can, we certainly try and do our stuff militarily to keep the world a safer place. Any time the US wants to do something with its army or navy mor air force, we, the Brits, generally join them. Ok, Harold Wilson, the long-serving Labour prime minister way back refused to send British troops to Vietnam but other than that, the UK has served alongside American comrades all over the world. Like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. So, this driving hatred for Europe is based on a not unfamiliar ignorance of what Europe is about. As far as the Hegseths and Vances of this world are concerned, the US does everything and Europe are just freeloaders. It's not true but what IS true is that the US is a military superpower - we are not - and as the leading nation of the Nato alliance, does more than anyone to try and stop the world from entering a new devastating war. So, we are blessed to have America on our side and long may it last. But we really don't need the Americans, any Americans, to loathe us and disparage us all the time. We're allies and friends and comrades-in-arms.