The vacuum they leave will be instantly filled by Russian Fascists or Muslim Fascists.
The wealth and resources they leave behind will become a weapon aimed at our hearts.
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.
The US currently pays 25% of NATO's budget and constitutes about 30% of the NATO alliance by population.
The number one sucker on the teat of the US taxpayer is the US non-taxpayer - or almost 50% of the US population.
Social programs make the Military look downright efficient.
With all due respect, why have you adopted the liberal mentality when it comes to foreign relations?
Why should the United States save Europe or any other country from their own stupidity?
Western Europe is made up of advanced industrialized countries with educated populaces.
They have the wherewithal to defend themselves from Russian and Muslim hordes if they choose to do so.
You think they care about the conservative American calvary to save them from their own stupidity and self-destruction?
Europeans hate American conservatives. They think we are all redneck yodels just like the American West and East coasts of the US.
Europeans believe the best foreign policy is appeasement and political correctness.
Why should the US underwrite this or defend it?
Look at their welfare states that are imploding.
According to your theory, we should have American conservative think tanks in the heart of Europe to save them from their own economic self-destruction as well.
What is the old conservative adage: “You can’t help those who won’t help themselves.”
This applies to foreign affairs as well to social policy.