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"TODAY I LEARNED… The United States accounted for about 60% of NATO’s combined nominal defense spending in 2025, even as European allies increased their own spending. So how much should the cost of defending the alliance factor into that conversation? "

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This argument is a part of the Democrat/Communist BIG LIE. They have used the European welfare states as some proof that the Eurotrash are somehow more enlightened and generous than the United States, for decades. There are two arguments that crush this BIG LIE.

First, the United States was founded, grew and prospered by being specifically unlike Europe. Europe is, and always has been, very inferior to the United States. European culture arises from the history and principle that the people are subjects of the state. Monarchy is dying but the concept of individual subjugation still drives European thinking. Take a close look, you will find the EU is much more like the Soviet Union than a small l liberal democracy. As subjects the people see their duty is to serve the state and the state will provide what the state determines the people need.

The American theory is the exact opposite. The American theory, and until recently an unquestioned premise of American governance, reversed the European relationship of subject and servant. The American system provides the American people with sovereignty. Our rights do not derive from a grant by the sovereign (the state) but from our status as humans and citizens, not subjects. The American system provides people with a right to determine our leadership. The purpose of that leadership is to serve the people and provide us with the ability to determine what we want, how much of whatever it is we want and to provide the economic and political rights and structures to buy what we want, in the amount we want and when we want it. The people determine our priorities. The Democrat/Communist Party fully embraces the European model.

The Eurotrash and the American Democrat/Communist Party have concealed the third element that creates the appearance of European socialist superiority. Europe has taken an 81 year holiday from history. Beginning with the Americans saving Europe from the Germans, twice, the American military has protected Europe from every enemy real and imagined, Russia being the imagined enemy. Outside of Sweden, Poland and possibly the UK and Hungary no European nation can protect itself from any likely enemy. What little military assets the Europeans had have been sent to Ukraine, expended and are now gone. Instead of protecting themselves, the Europeans fed on American military power. The United States build bases in Europe for 80 years. The Europeans refused American accesses to our own bases for the showdown with Iraq. Even if the United States should provide universal government run health care it could only come at the costs of abandoning our own national defense, like Europe. Only there is no one protecting us. Gratitude part 1.

Europe also rewarded our steadfast protection by robbing the United States blind in trade. Tariff and non tariff barriers made American cars unsellable in Europe, and all other American products while we opened our markets to everything from Krupp coffee machines, BMW automobiles, French cheese and wine, British beers, Landrovers and Mini Coopers. We bought Spanish and French wheat to stabilize those silly countries economies at the expense of shrinking profits for American wheat farmers. There are literally thousands of such examples. It was simply, America last. Gratitude part 2.

The day of reckoning has arrived. The EU completely lost its collective mind when Trump demanded the EU pay the 5% of GDP into the common alliance, no nation but Poland does. Canada, part of the NATO alliance, has virtually disarmed. To make the situation more farcical, the EU and NATO nations bought oil and gas from Russia, the purported terrifying enemy, thus providing Russia with the capital with which to build the weapons the EU and European NATO nations and Canada claim were so frightening they required US protection.

Now we know that Russia poses no threat as long as Sweden and Poland maintain their powerful militaries. If Russia and its North Korean allies cannot defeat little, weak Nazi Ukraine, and the Ukrainians are the actual Ukrainian Nazis from WW II, what possible chance would Russia have against Sweden and Poland. Those two countries can lock down the Russian sub fleets from ever reaching the Atlantic or the North American Arctic. Russia's pathetic, antiquated doctrines are completely obsolete in 21st Century Warfare. So Europe, the gravy train is over.

After 81 years the United States is going to prioritize our economy and our safety. You can socialize medicine or you can have Leopard tanks, drones and missiles. Those American bases we were refused by Spain and the UK are going to be dismantled. DJT is not leaving a nail. The Eurotrash will never rebuild those bases.

American First means European priorities are no better than second. In the DJT doctrine the Euros aren't even second or third. European security if a distant fourth as the Western Hemisphere is restored to the Monroe Doctrine, e.g. China out. Middle Eastern stability and trade in the new, post Iranian terror regime is an important defense priority, far more so than the Euros.

So Europe, and its shrinking economies, dying liberties and decrepit and dysfunctional cultures has some very hard choices. Hopefully they don't think the United States will come running for a fourth time to save them from their foolish, foppish and failed culture.