Europe has long tried to exercise "global leadership" by leveraging the might of the U.S. economy and military to do its dirty work--against Germany, against Russia, in Vietnam--but they turned on us in a heartbeat when it suited them. Now that the U.S. is asserting its own interests, the EU leaders who have been taking advantage of our generosity are acting like a teenager who's upset that they're now expected to pay for their own gas when they use the car.
Exactly. There all for the use of force....when they approve and its in their interests and when America pays for it and when its American troops taking all the risks. Otherwise they think the use of force is terrible.....especially if its in America’s interest instead of their’s.
Remember how they all thought going into Kosovo without UN approval was just fine and dandy in 1999 - because they deemed it in their interest. Remember those same Yurps claiming it was “illegal” in 2003 when Bush ordered US troops into Iraq without UN approval. Oh you see NOW that the Yurps didn’t approve of it....now that it was not in THEIR interest because they were about to have Saddam’s blood money which they had been pocketing cut off, well NOW its “illegal” you see.....
They are completely worthless and are no allies of ours. The current EU president Jean Claude Juncker claimed “now is not the time of America, now is the time of Europe” in the mid 90s when war broke out in former Yugoslavia. Years of slaughter after European inactivity later, America had to step in and clean up that mess too.