Saturday, December 10, 2022

Why is it us always bailing those fools out?-----America’s Allies Should Fear Abandonment

America’s Allies Should Fear Abandonment - Doug Bandow 
"For the past 77 years, the US has defended the so-called free world...
  • Even today, Washington does more than Europe to defend Europe. None of the continent’s traditionally great powers, Britain, France, and Germany, fields even 300 tanks
  • The US deploys more ships to the Pacific than Japan possesses to defend itself. 
  • Despite having 50 times the economic strength and twice the population of the North, South Korea’s army is smaller and possesses fewer tanks. 
The problem only seems to get worse. 
  • Washington now is spending far more than its European partners collectively to subsidize Ukraine’s defense, even though Kyiv’s future matters far more to them. Moreover, early European promises to do much more militarily were forgotten once the US stepped in so heavily...

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