NATO has evolved as a way for European nations to foist their independent defense expenditures onto the backs of the American taxpayer. This allows these same European nations to deploy generous public spending that makes US leftists drool. As long as other NATO members reject their stipulated ongoing contributions and fail to bring their arrears to current, the US should diminish NATO spending by the TOTAL owed by other members.
Hawley is up in ‘24 and he’s out for himself. He’d rather be POTUS. Will he ‘quit’ on us rather than keep a senate seat? 12 years for a guy like him might be too impatient a move.