Posted on 02/02/2022 11:32:25 PM PST by McGruff
Scarred by losing tens of millions of lives on their soil in two world wars, many European Union nations have been wary ever since about military spending.
Now, as Russian pressure builds at the Ukrainian border, they face a painful reality: Europe remains heavily reliant on U.S. might to deter another potentially big conflict on its turf.
Because of a half-hearted attitude to defense and security over decades, “the EU has almost nothing to bring to the table,” says Piotr Buras, senior policy fellow at the European Council of Foreign Relations think tank. “So, Russia can simply ignore it.”
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The reason the Europeans are talking about this is because of Joe Biden’s Afghanistan disaster, erratic behavior, and declining cognition.
The thought of their fate riding on that meat puppet scares the hell out of them. Now the grifting Eurotrash sit there with no military, totally dependent on Russian energy, and an American public that wants to tell them to pound sand.
Schadenfreude.
I’m more interested in figure skating at this year’s Olympics.
Looks like Ass Press has caught up to what we retrograde knuckle-dragging Neanderthals have been saying for, oh I don't know, the last 40 years? It was a sweet deal for social spending but it depended on the United States being capable of enough leadership to make deterrence credible. What we have now is a ruling class full of thumb-sucking cretins headed by a fool who craps his pants on a regular basis. If I were European I'd be looking at this mess with horror too.
Hahaha.
What a description!
What a bizarre, illogical attitude!
So, Poland - attacked on two sides and torn apart in the last war - should be "wary" of spending too much for defense?
Laughable!
Regards,
After World War One, and again after World War Two, Germany was banned from becoming too strong militarily. They've also been guilt-tripped against taking pride in classic Prussian militarism.
Are you now blaming the Germans for being militarily weak? You might blame some other European nations for that, but Germany is according to the Allies' postwar design.
The American Deep State wanted the U.S. to be the unparalleled superpower. We share the blame for Europe's military weakness and woke culture (which we exported to Europe via Hollywood and other channels).
In all honesty, even they’d spend all their money on defense, it is not going to help much. They’d better try better diplomacy.
I would also point out that NATO was really designed to protect Europe from Germany more than the Soviet Union.
Your are damned right I am going to blame Germany.
President Trump tried for four years to get NATO allies to spend more on their own defense and to grow their militaries and they refused to do so. You seem to have forgotten that - or did you?
Europeans are freaking out now about being totally dependent on Russia gas and President Trump warned them to build more LNG terminals, not to decommission their nuclear energy, and to quit being such useless spongers and many ignored him, especially Germany under Frau Merkel.
The Europeans were just happy to laugh at us behind their back while they took our money and Evan to think that America, and all the suckers in it, belonged to them. They were even starting to demand the right to vote in our elections when the execrable GWB was president.
If the Kraut led EU wants to fight a Third World War then they can do it on their own.
"Kraut"? Why are some Freepers still fighting World War Two?
As whites are the most demonized of all races, I refuse to use racial or ethnic slurs against any fellow white. Not against Germans, Russians, French, Italians, or anyone else. Nor do I tolerate it in others.
If I disagree with a fellow white, I will do so without resorting to anti-white hate speech.
Scarred by losing tens of millions of lives on their soil in two world wars, many European Union nations have been wary ever since about military spending. Now, as Russian pressure builds at the Ukrainian border, they face a painful reality: Europe remains heavily reliant on U.S. might to deter another potentially big conflict on its turf.
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Makes it sound like the U.S. sat out WW1&2.
This has been obvious for decades. Its not just that the Yurps have no balls - which they don’t. It is also that the Yurps are addicted to socialism. All that socialism has sucked up all the money and left none for national defense.
Some of them like Germany are animated not only by a distinct lack of testicles and by their greedy government needing ever more money because of all the socialism but also by a massive case of butt-hurt towards the greatest benefactor their country has ever had, the USA. That pettiness combined with their ridiculous Gaia Worship has caused them to make themselves completely dependent on Russia for their energy needs.
Its the same pettiness as well as greed for more cash to lavish on the socialism at home that causes them to go out of their way to do business with tyrannical regimes like Cuba, Iran, Iraq under Saddam, etc as soon as the US sanctions them.
Thus they have zero diplomatic leverage. They are too militarily weak and too greedy for anybody to take them seriously in diplomatic terms.
To quote Robert Gates, “Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision in last 4 decades”
Now Europe & the rest of NATO may just reap the whirlwind that Biden creates.
I worry that Dimjo is going to escalate what should be a minor Eastern European problem into World War 3.
Watching the Yurps squirm is the one truly entertaining thing about watching team Biden fumble around and show its massive incompetence at every turn internationally.
Its starting to dawn on them that the gravy train won’t last forever.
What Europe suffered in its World Wars dwarfs America's sufferings in those wars.
The Civil War, especially the South's experience, better mirrors Europe experiences in its World Wars. Whole cities demolished. Farmland devastated. Bankruptcies, famine, disease, enemy occupation, and massive casualties, both military and civilian.
Scarred by losing tens of millions of lives on their soil in two world wars, many European Union nations have been wary ever since about military spending.
That sentence alone shows their ignorance. Losing 10s of millions of lives in two wars is why you should have a massive military for deterennce.
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