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.
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.