We may not be perfect, but Europe is rudderless without the U.S...as recent history shows. The West needs strong leadership and we have been blessed with Trump.
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If Present-day Europe is “Western Civilization”, then they can prove their mettle by defending themselves. Collectively they easily have the resources. We are NOT the world’s (or even our own hemisphere’s) policeman.
I understand, but that would leave a vacuum and you are sorely misguided if you think Russia won’t want fill it. They are already trying. It of course wants to be the new “policeman.”
(Which would be awful especially if you grasp what a Russian concept of “police” means even in its most basic sense.)
Or that China won’t fill the economic vacuum — which is why it’s great a trade war has started.
We should not fight pointless wars, but the world is a very dangerous place when USA takes a backseat. Someone is always willing to replace us out front. And its usually someone bad.
North Korea de-nuclearization talks? Fat chance in a world without Trump.