Our friends are not pulling their weight. They are spending less and less of their GDP on defense in order to keep their welfare states going. They have chosen butter over guns. Why should the US taxpayer bear these costs?
The condition of military in almost all the other NATO countries is deplorable. The gap between US capabilities and the Europeans is getting wider and wider because they have not invested the money to keep up with the technology. This threatens interoperability between our forces and their's. It weakens NATO.
It is time to have a come to Jesus meeting with our NATO allies and tell them it is time to sh#t or get off the pot. Trump is laying down a marker. The US can no longer fiscally support the defense umbrella for Europe alone. It is bankrupting us.
