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Most of Europe doesn't act like us or behave like us and are pretty "secure" from a national security perspective. The only power that really matters is econom
by fweespeech 10y ago
Most of Europe doesn't act like us or behave like us and are pretty "secure" from a national security perspective.
The only power that really matters is economic power and, honestly, military strength doesn't really help with that past the point you are roughly equal to everyone else.
- CountSessine 10y agoMost of Europe sneers and looks down at American posturing while living happily behind the aegis of America's participation in NATO. America's profligate spending on their military has given Europe the luxury of not spending much at all on theirs and pretending that this is 'principle'. If the US withdrew from Europe and NATO, Russia would aggressively bully most of eastern Europe. Do you remember a few years ago how Russia invaded Georgia? Or how they are currently in the process of invading Ukraine? It isn't an accident that the Poland is one of the most eager participants in NATO and is the only other NATO country other than the US that is meeting their 2% GDP membership requirements.