77 years after WW2 and they still have no moral compass.
I thought the whole "NATO countries not holding up their ends" was just a big fib a few years ago
That was my takeaway too. I was under the impression there was a nato standard for weapons, yet they say their missile system can't accept us or British missiles until winter because of software upgrades needed... wow.
I don't think people were alarmed by Trump insisting that countries pay their fair share. The concern was him pulling us out of NATO, which had his own national security advisor freaked out because he thought he might do it.
Putin thinks capturing this is bigger than it really is for Russia’s long term prosperity. The world is transitioning.I know there was a discussion of Ukraine's natural resources earlier so maybe this was already posted.
The moral compass was set to be pacifist/anti nationalism after WW2 and that's how the world wanted it.
Under Merkel yes, but also for decades before.
Some very close friends of ours taught on base in Germany starting in the early 80’s, but they lived off base. He was of German heritage and they befriended some locals over time. He said that after several beers the old guys would bust out with Deutschland Uber Alles - just like old times.
Oh please, let’s not act like we were doing this out of the goodness of our hearts. For a lot of years after WW2 Europe and the US didn’t want a militarily strong Germany. Europe became ground zero in the Cold War, if things between us and Russia became active conflict, it was going to be Europe that paid the price first.
Then you weren't listening, which I'm not surprised about. Trump wasn't wrong to raise the alarm that only the US and the UK were properly funding NATO, at least of the major countries involved. He also wasn't wrong to argue that our trade agreements with China were out of whack. The problem was that he was extremely ill equipped to properly handle them. Trump only has one tool and it's a grenade to either threaten people with or blow things up. The problem was that he kept saying he was just going to pull the US out of NATO just like he pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accords, just like he invalidated the treaty with Iran (That's had disastrous effects). There were no treaties that he felt were worth honoring. I'm fairly certain that given 4 more years he'd have done everything within his power to destroy NATO, Remove us from the UN (Which who knows what real benefit it brings) and try to make the US as isolationist as possible.
The Cold War ended 30+ years ago. It’s been time for Germany to grow up.
People love to conflate non-interventionist with isolationist.
lol, and do they know where Nicaragua is? If you listen to these idiots, you'd think Russia was about to overthrow Washington.
Why? Without the European bases the US would probably have had to greatly increase its investment in naval assets to counter the Soviet Union. It’s not like we got nothing in return for our investment in NATO.
Somebody, please kill Putin.
While I fully agree, I also worry the next guy will be the same or worse.
yeah, at this point I think this goes deeper than Putin. Unless there's a major coupe from opposition who would lead a more liberal society then I don't think the solution is just Putin dying. It's going to require Russia being beaten and we have to recognize that they're no longer a country we can trust as a modern European society. We tried and they rejected it. They are Imperialistic by nature and until they modernize it's going to be a problem.
But the Soviets always had a poop navy. It was never going to make them a threat to invade the U.S.
