Ms. lePen is correct on the NATO issue. It WAS put together for a European defense force against The Warsaw Pact, and ultimately, the Soviet Union. Yes, there is ‘Russia’, but without ‘the Soviet buffer states’, including the once was East Germany, there has been no threat of expansion.
With the discussions coming from Brussels of an ‘EU Army’, I believe it is time for the US to divorce itself from any further NATO bankrolling, and making OUR weapons ‘NATO-compatible’. Brussels wants an ‘EU Army’, they can pay for that, themselves.
“Used to be that Europeans were shooting Europeans with 9mm projectiles, until Johnny Yank showed up with his 1911 loosing .45 caliber slugs making Europeans deader than the 9mm (.355) ever did!”
There is a pawnshop that puts on all kinds of gun topic YouTube shows. I watched one the other day on Caliber and they stated that from all gun reports with actual shootings the caliber that got 93% one shot drop power was the 357 magnum, thought it was interesting.