Supportive of EUs existence, yes. Supportive of EU reforming into becoming a strong, potential rival of the U.S? No, never.

No, we have been supportive and even funded the EU from the beginning. I'll tell you where this hate is coming from and it has nothing to do with being rivals. It's the EU that can't get its shit together and fucking federalize for once. You want to know why we hate NATO, it's because there's multiple EU states in NATO who only care for their own territory and their own national interests, while bickering with one another and not meeting their spending requirements. If the EU was a country, we would respect it alot more and it would pull its own weight. We respect power, not small individual states. Why do you think Russia is trying to bully the EU? Because he (Putin) sees it as weak, not even a country. He sees individual states with their own self-interests and seeks to divide and conquer.

When we compare the West to the Shanghai Pact and rising powers like BRICS, of course we are turned off by the EU and the disagreements between us all. One day, the West will fall and we will only have ourselves to blame, including the EU.