I am not sure “brace” is the right word. There is probably some confusion about what the move means. Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on what Trump’s next moves are, which is sort of unpredictable. Maybe he’ll invade Greenland, maybe he’ll invade Cuba, maybe he’ll invade Vatican City, how is anyone supposed to know?
The only thing we know for certain is that the move to reduce troops is not predicated on the cost of the deployment. In fact, it’s really hard to imagine what America is going to do with the future insane military budget Trump is asking for. They’ll probably have to stack gold coins twenty feet high and bulldozer them into the sea just to get rid of the money.
See, the US troops are in Europe as power projection. Europe is a lot closer to the US traditional geopolitical enemies than the US, so the US prepositions forces there.
Trump, and many idiotic conservatives, think that this somehow is to protect Europe, and have noticed that they aren’t being paid for this protection. They would be lousy gangsters if they kept protecting Europe without being paid, so they’re pulling the troops out.
They have no clue what they’re doing, but what else is new?
Yeah, that whole, “if it weren’t for us, you’d all be speaking German” thing is getting a little old in the tooth. I notice that, in America, they seem to think the only thing preventing the rest of the world from invading is a forceful military presence. Easy enough to point to plenty countries without forceful military presence that aren’t invaded every five minutes, but I guess they are not paying the “price of freedom.”
It’s probably the most annoying thing about all this. So much good stuff could have happened with the money everybody now has to waste on military infrastructure, just because a few autocrats have decided it’s the new normal to just steal stuff from others.
I am not sure “brace” is the right word. There is probably some confusion about what the move means. Whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing depends on what Trump’s next moves are, which is sort of unpredictable. Maybe he’ll invade Greenland, maybe he’ll invade Cuba, maybe he’ll invade Vatican City, how is anyone supposed to know?
The only thing we know for certain is that the move to reduce troops is not predicated on the cost of the deployment. In fact, it’s really hard to imagine what America is going to do with the future insane military budget Trump is asking for. They’ll probably have to stack gold coins twenty feet high and bulldozer them into the sea just to get rid of the money.
It’s just a tantrum.
See, the US troops are in Europe as power projection. Europe is a lot closer to the US traditional geopolitical enemies than the US, so the US prepositions forces there.
Trump, and many idiotic conservatives, think that this somehow is to protect Europe, and have noticed that they aren’t being paid for this protection. They would be lousy gangsters if they kept protecting Europe without being paid, so they’re pulling the troops out.
They have no clue what they’re doing, but what else is new?
Yeah, that whole, “if it weren’t for us, you’d all be speaking German” thing is getting a little old in the tooth. I notice that, in America, they seem to think the only thing preventing the rest of the world from invading is a forceful military presence. Easy enough to point to plenty countries without forceful military presence that aren’t invaded every five minutes, but I guess they are not paying the “price of freedom.”
It’s probably the most annoying thing about all this. So much good stuff could have happened with the money everybody now has to waste on military infrastructure, just because a few autocrats have decided it’s the new normal to just steal stuff from others.