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Defense contractors need to steal what they can while they can.
Trump, You Magnificent Bastard
You got them to defend themselves
Other than the UK, and to a lesser extent, Canada, Australia and NZ which the US can ally as the Five Eyes without the NATO apparatus, is there any war the US engaged since the formation of the NATO alliance where the contribution by continental European allies made a significant difference to the outcome? And yes, that question applies to Afghanistan, the only time Article five was invoked, with US special forces militarily winning within two months and then changing the mission and proceeding to lose over the next 20 years. Vietnam, Iraq 1 and 2, Libya, the Balkans (which was of territorial vital national security interest to continental Europe and little to the Five Eyes)? My point is that nominal continental European military contributions, although nice for the feelgood optics of multinationalism, have always been militarily insignificant and irrelevant to ultimate war outcome
Maybe a little tough love is in order requiring them to form their own joint standing army and alliance for their defense with a separate Five Eyes alliance, which does not face the same territorial threats as continental Europe, that operates independently and has no hard baked in mutual commitments to a continent reluctant to defend itself.
If the EU is afraid of Russia as it claims to be, their member nations should be doubling or tripling their spending — and seeking to recruit whatever true patriot-warriors they have left, rather than Muslims, feminists, LGBTs, or TikTok’ers.
Get them self-sufficient, then write off Europe to the inevitability of Muslim demographic dominance, and get us OUT of NATO, President Trump!
NATO post-Cold War has been a foreign entanglement which only served to enrich the MIIC and the permanent political class, rather than serve the interests of the American people.
We need to prepare NOW for all of Europe (except whatever the Russians end up owning) falling to Islam and becoming a dire nuclear threat. Nothing can stop demographics except mass extinction.
Not the first time: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4212806/posts?page=13#13