Trump effect on NATO spending is 'staggering,' Secretary General says

No more free lunch

 

I’m old enough to remember when Trump was ridiculed by the self proclaimed intellectuals for stating the obvious years ago…(2018 article below). Now EU and nato spending ramps up.

little hint- you can’t start preparing for fight once you’re in it


Trump Goes Full “No Puppet, You’re the Puppet” on Angela Merkel

 

Former allies cancel plans to buy F35 because they don’t trust the US not to attack them and disable their purchased planes. Trump made the world utterly unsafe.

Portugal Drops Plans for F-35 Citing U.S. Political Uncertainty

 

So much winning with those American workers who would have manufactured the planes and provided support and maintenance services .

 

Idk why people are excited by a militarized Europe. That has traditionally not gone well for anyone. Just wait till the nukes start proliferating.

 

One likely unintended consequence of Trump's embrace of Russia could be the end of US dominance of the military aircraft market. By demonstrating that the US can no longer be a trusted ally the Europeans will begin developing their own state of the art aircraft as well as other military equipment with the net result being a defense equivalent of Airbus or possibly Airbus itself which has now passed Boeing in the civilian airliner market and could very well do the same with jet fighters and air defense missiles as well as other military equipment and it's already happening on a small scale.
Mirage 2000s Could Become Kyiv's Most Important Aerial Radar Jammers
Ukraine uses French Mirage jets for first time in repelling massive Russian attack – POLITICO

 

Germany building up to go to war with Russia.

What a fresh idea!

 

I think NATO members paying their agreed upon share is a good thing.

There were many possible pays to achieve that, however. Most all of them avoided the United States ceding hard and soft power to our allies and enemies alike.

It's hard to call this a win because we've knee capped ourselves in accomplishing it. I know isolationists here will disagree

 

Same exact conversation I had with my MaGA buddy who asked me my thoughts on DOGE. I'm all for cutting govt waste, doing it willy nilly with no functional plan is place is idiotic. Same with our current foreign policy.

 

The spending should be for the current and escalating cyber war.

 

Yup. And at this point, the best we can hope for is this is just a general idea, wrapped in crazed exuberance, and executed without competence.

I fear it's much more devious, however.

 

“Russia good, NATO bad” we get it comrade.

 

If Russia was really a threat to Europe than the Euros would have been spending a lot more on defense.

The US should have pulled out of NATO after the USSR dissolved.

 

What is this love affair you have with Russia. What is it about Russia you find so attractive that you’re willing to continue to make un-American posts?

 

all you libs seem to have is russia russia russia and hate hate hate - please carry on with that

 

Sheesh. It wasn’t that long ago that the left would celebrate an evil US defense contractor losing a bid. Even more fantastic is now the left (citygator) says LESS US weapons sales to the EU makes the world LESS safe? Thats quite the conclusion from the intellectual class. Welcome to the elastic world of liberal principals. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

I think you confuse concern for hate. But OK. Will do. Non-maga will continue to be concerned about Russia and China.

 

That straw man never stood a chance.