"The absurdity of Nato worrying about Russia."
Many more salient points, more at the link.
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As you can see, the EU is 3x as populous and much wealthier than Russia, so if it were true that Russia could invade Europe and defeat the EU countries or NATO without the United States, it is only due to the fact that the European countries are weenies unwilling to defend themselves. Worse, it would mean that they are bloodsuckers who have been grifting off US generosity and unwilling to defend even their own territory, counting entirely on us.
I am not hostile to NATO, but Trump is right that we are being played for suckers. Not just by the European countries themselves, who, after all, are just being rational. If the United States is willing to blow big bucks to defend them, it just makes sense for them to let us. Even Trump understands that; he just doesn't like being on the wrong end of the deal.
It's the foreign policy establishment who are the ones we should be more disgusted with. Their scaremongering is all about strengthening the transnational elite, which is even more powerful in Europe than in the United States. There is a reason that the WEF meets in Davos and not Aspen--ESG and woke are super entrenched over there, and the technocratic elite is more firmly ensconced there.
European elites are further along in the so-called "Great Reset," with Net Zero, open borders, transnationalism, and the suppression of the working classes deeply entrenched. Governments are already seizing farmland, deindustrializing, shutting down power plants, and building an elite utopia and working-class dystopia that the corporate and government elites keep talking about.
NATO keeps the United States tied closely to Europe, and the elite's "NATO at all costs" attitude leads to bizarre situations where European countries try to dictate social policies, such as creeping censorship through EU regulations. It's the tail wagging the dog.
I am not anti-NATO at all. As a dyed-in-the-wool anticommunist, I was a big fan of the alliance during the Cold War and never thought about disengaging with NATO in the decades since the USSR's fall. I still think that, all things being equal, we are likely better off with NATO than not.
But not if it means we are hostage to European diktats through EU regulation or bullying.
They owe us, not the other way around.
Any claim that Europe would fall to Russia without US military support is absurd. We could disengage over a few years, giving these countries time to build up their weapons stockpiles, and they should be fine. If they really would lose a war with Russia, that is really pathetic.
Many more salient points, more at the link.