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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.
I think free riders on US security spending is a bit exaggerated, considering the EU spends yearly 340+ billion collectively on defense, trillions over decades, including UK even more, and part of the money was always used to buy US equipment and support US wars, but it's true that the EU could have spent even more and Europe profited from US security guarantees. However, the EU has also carried the main burden of refugees from US-led wars, spending again billions on refugee support and is now solely funding the Ukraine war, which was partly provoked by US/Nato expansion.
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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.
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