[citizen]

That’s incrediblly stupid big-gov [non]reasoning.

“We’re already so far into deficit spending, another $trillion won’t matter.”

Euros simply want USA taxpayers to take care of Eurpoe’s problems. Saving Europe twice wasn’t enough. You want to hide behind our apron skirts forever. Man up and be somebody!

[pierrem15]

But they won't "man up" for the same reasons they stumbled into two world wars. They're unified and rich enough to be a great geopolitical prize, but too divided internally despite the facade of the EU. Only with a bigger power acting as primus inter pares can they act.

And we should do so, not because it's in their interests but because it's in ours. First, allowing all of Europe's wealth and tech to pass over to Russia and the Chinese would be catastrophic for the US. Second, allowing a restoration of the pre-WWII and pre-WWI game of great power land grabs just sets the stage for another world war, even if by accident. That's already plain simply from the "Biden" regime's appeasement policies and the eruption of conflicts we're seeing now.