And don't forget, WE, the US, paid to rebuild Europe and didn't get a dime of it back. Just gave it away to them. Meanwhile, our nation looks like crap and theirs are not much more than 70 odd years old. Ours is in a state of chronic decay.
“If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the United States, then this whole project [NATO] will have failed.”
Dwight David Eisenhower