Washington warned us against foreign entanglements
US out of UN, UN out of the US
US out of NATO
I’m getting a kick out of Poland. Whatever your opinion is on the Russian Ukraine war, I think it us fair for them to be concerned and buy whatever up to date equipment they can.
I notice an inverse relationship between funding of defense and complaining about the U.S.
I spent a career in defense. It’s not how much you spend. It’s how you spend it. I saw fantastic waste. The literal combat ships and Future Combat Systems are great examples. One was due to an admiral’s ego and the other was pure congressional and corporate fraud. It’s like there’s no oversight. Rumsfeld was the last guy who actually tackled the job.
Ya gotta love Poland and the Poles.
According to what I was able to Google, the EU has over triple the population of Russia and about ten times its GDP. Based on those underlying measures of potential power, can someone please explain to me why it is that the EU can’t defend itself from Russia and needs help from the US?
I don’t care if European states spend 1%, 5%, 20% or zero percent on their militaries.
That’s their business, and they should mind their business.
NATO should have ceased to exist on Christmas Day 1991. The continued existence of a military alliance with European states exposes us to harm, and carries no benefit worth the price.
Poland and Greece understand and willing to pay because they have a social memory of having to fight other nations on their own land.....Poland invaded by by Germany & Russia to start WW2....Greece having been raped by the Ottoman empire, the Greek war with Turkey after WW1 and then later the war over Cyprus.
For such a poor county, Greece really understands the need to spend money on its military.
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