Germany needs to up their defense spending because in the battle between good and evil, the world may soon need them as the most powerful force for good. I am worried that the country that used to be a “shining city on a hill” and the “last best hope of earth” may become a nearly irresistible force for totalitarianism and for a single all-powerful and suffocatingly intrusive world government.
There is no reason to be loyal to the dirt we call the United States; our oath was to the Constitution. Once FedGov leaves that behind and leaves American ideals behind, our purpose in life should be to protect those ideals and restore them here, or help to revive them in another country. If FedGov becomes the enemy of freedom and Germany can be a military and economic counterweight to the behemoth in DC, I’m all for that.
Force for good? They’ve achieved economic imperialism via treaty and beggar-thy-neighbor in the European Union, their economy is the “social market economy” (which they regard as the enemy of the free market), and people think that if they re-militarize they will be a “force for good”. Curious POV.
Obama has decimated the US military. He has also undermined it with this homosexual, LGBT, transsexual, anti-Christian, feminist agenda. Those policies have been as destructive (perhaps more) than his fiscal rape of our Dept of Defense.
The Republicans do not get a pass on this either: they wrote the Budget Control Act that punished Defense the most - even knowing that it had ALREADY been deeply cut by Obama in 2010 and 2012 by hundreds of Billions. Sequestration made it even worse.