The Germans and the French won’t stand up to increasingly re-invigorated (and frankly, fascist leaning) Russia.
If we are not the major player in continental Europe, Russia will be.
What we should do is stay in these places...and (somehow) make them pay for our peace-keeping there.
Bingo
My old adversary Ivan.
“Ivan Attitude”
LoL He’s been trying to get folks to think he is reasonable these past 20 years, but he’s the same old bear.
“What we should do is stay in these places...and (somehow) make them pay for our peace-keeping there.”
If we stay, it will contribute to our economic collapse, which won’t be very much prettier than a military collapse.
...unless we are smart enough to take your suggestion and make them pay for our protection.
Perhaps NATO could assess some sort of fee on its members, based on the number of troops in their countries. The fees could then be transferred to the countries providing the troops.
Indirect enough not to cause nationalistic hard feelings, maybe.
So what if they don’t stand up to Russia?
They won’t stand up to the Muslims, either in their own countries or to terrorists.
It is their continent and if they want to self-destruct, let them.
The US can no longer run around holding everybody’s hand like they are some welfare basket case that needs to forever suck on the US tax payer’s and US military’s teat.