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> and challenge anyone (including the US) on the international stage again. This is something what US diplomacy wanted to avoid by keeping US Army in Europe, s
by TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
> and challenge anyone (including the US) on the international stage again.
This is something what US diplomacy wanted to avoid by keeping US Army in Europe, so Europe has no reason to arm itself. Sure USA are paying for it and some of Americans don't like it, but in the long term it is keeping Europe in state of suppressed power, which does not challenge US interests around the world and actually mostly cooperating with USA. Isolationism of USA under Trump and MAGA will weaken this approach and will give chance to EU to emerge as 3rd super power next to USA and China.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> This is something what US diplomacy wanted to avoid by keeping US Army in Europe The US has been actively promoting European political unification and internal defense integration for decades, and was also a backer of the “United States of Europe” vision at least as far back as when Churchill articulated it after WWII. On of the major goals of NATO and integrating West Germany into it was to reduce intra-European tensions.