[ealgeone]

Is this the same Western Europe that for the bulk of the Cold War refused to spend the minimum on defense and instead relied upon our nuclear umbrella for protection?

And now they start questioning unity????

[hardspunned]

de Gaulle was no fool. His force de frappe has a French finger on a French nuclear deterrent today. Who could question or blame Manhattan Projects in Poland, Hungary, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Biden has created a huge power vacuum. It will be filled by the above and other democracies or it will be filled by China and Russia.