Like President Trump says, "things are going to change". And it's about time too!
This is a shock for Europe
I felt European once, Dad stopped giving me an allowance and told me to go mow yards.
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Good analysis. And it reminds me of a favorite Bible verse: “Cast not thy pearls before swine lest they trample them underfoot, then turn on you and tear and rend you.”
Shouldn’t the headline more accurately be “Europe’s America Problem??”. Europe needs the US one hell of a lot more than America needs Europe.
From their vantage point, Europe thinks America is too confrontational, too militaristic, and too dangerous. Time and time again, Europe has shown a high tolerance towards malevolent states whereas the U.S. hasn’t. This history stretches back from the USSR in the Cold War and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to the mullahs in Iran today.
The Euros have been sucking off our teat while backstabbing us at the same time ever since the Marshall Plan ended.
Consider the Japanese. They launched a sneak attack on our Navy, and we used the world’s most horrible weapon on them. Twice.
Yet today they are better friends and allies than any European country (from whom we have the right to expect a whole lot more).
We bailed your asses out of 2 wars... rebuilt you from the ashes, and let you live under the blanket of our protection for more than 70 years.... And in that time you have let your militaries become farces, created dependency states, and welcomed a new horde of barbarians into your countries....
Being an Allie, does not mean being a sugar daddy. Europe needs to man up... and it was never going to do it as long as the US was there to coddle them.
Thanks for posting this.
He hits the nail on the head. The divergence we’re seeing between the interests of Europe and the USA is inevitable and would be happening no matter who we elected but with President Trump it’s being better managed and accelerated and I’m all for it. It’s well past time for Europe to grow up and move out of our basement.
It’s Europe’s Europe problem - dependency on America.
Yeah well the idea of air conditioning and ice cubes is shocking to Europeans
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But more than a penurious attitude toward collective defense is involved here. The cruel fact is that a sense of moral superiority counts for very little when action is called for, and the ability to craft a post-crisis narrative excusing inaction doesn't really help anyone but the idle spectators. "I could have done it better" is, after the virtue signalling is stripped out, "I didn't".
This is, as well, a Europe whose ruling class has openly attempted to alter its internal demographics in pursuit of a sustainable welfare state, a process that will only accelerate given the difference in reproduction rate between the natives and the newcomers. This can only be described as a fundamental alteration of the nation itself, whose citizens were never consulted about it and many of whom now view the activity with the alarm it deserved in the first place. It's probably already too late to rectify the matter - one generation in and they'll be attempting to deport the native-born. That was very much by design.
So there are issues of much greater significance than the price of Mercedes-Benz automobiles in Topeka. Europe is going to have to grow up, fast, and it didn't really have to be that way.
No more White Privilege for the Euroweenies. President Trump and capitalism have turned the world upside down. I love how President Trump used the American dream to wow Kim Jung Un. Dream of what could be a wonderful thing for a people who want to work for it.