How? When 2008 crisis happened the whole of west went down with the US

That was when the US was tightly aligned politically, economically, strategically at every level from national security to economic liberalism, with the rest of the West.

For years it was a given that the UK and Europe needed to buddy up to the US. That's not the sentiment any more, because the next four years feel like that's the wrong direction, and Ukraine is about to fall and that's the priority.