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.

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.