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RE: Trump's post about Greenland got community noted on X. One explanation why Trump is threatening NATO: Dividing NATO members into good and bad ones.
Interesting perspective. Thanks.
It demonstrates to me that even an intelligent and knowledgeable European like yourself still has a perspective on geopolitics that is not based on hard reality.
It seems to me that:
European defence spending generates limited capabilities - Israel spends a tiny fraction of this yet is able to equal & better US in all metrics in this combined operation, while Europe barely participates and ran away from Houthi's despite Red Sea being crucial to EU trade.
No one made Europe take the military age Muslim men that are flooding in. Real countries defend their borders from invaders. Blaming the US for the flood of "refugees" into Europe is pretty rich.
The Ukraine War is a war that affects Europe greatly and the US little at all. Why should the US pay anything for a Slavic fratricide created by stupid European policy of endlessly expanding NATO. Admittedly Biden does bear some here responsibility too.
Agree with your points, Europe spends too much money on defense inefficiently, too many countries with diverging interests, languages, etc. very hard to stand together and organize our own military and foreign policy, and so far EU didn't have to, NATO was/is EU's defense program. Maybe one positive thing from the current situation is that the EU is pushed to build its own military alliance, becoming more independent from the US. One problem with the current middle east war is that Europe, NATO and even GCC countries were not sufficiently consulted first, before striking Iran. Therefore also the lack of support. Difficult situation, on the one hand Iran regime is really bad but war is not always the solution, leads to even more suffering and vicious cycle of violence, endless wars in the middle east from an outside perspective.