Quote (dro94 @ 7 Nov 2019 21:47)
Why should the US spend billions on protecting Europe when Europe won't spend billions to protect itself? Only Estonia, Greece, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and the UK currently spend 2% of GDP on defence. The states closest to Russia under threat of invasion are being abandoned.
the whole idea of spending a certain percentage of your gdp is just ridiculous, and it makes little sense strategically speaking. military threats and tasks have to be assessed and addressed specifically, and of course i'm generally fine with bigger economies contributing a larger share of the funding, but making spending a certain amount mandatory, no matter if it's warranted or not, is just an idiotic concept that only leads to unnecessary arms races.
that said, europeans already spend hundreds of billions on their military, so i have no clue why you are perpetuating those silly talking points.
also, if this really was just about europe being able to defend itself, the frenchies alone have enough nukes to blow up the planet a couple of times - and i really don't want germany, or any other country for that matter, to have their own nukes. i'd celebrate if americans finally withdrew their drone murderers and nuclear arsenal from our country - they don't make us safer, quite the opposite.