cryptohamster on Nostr: I mean, in 90s the US very much encouraged this, that was part and parcle of the ...
I mean, in 90s the US very much encouraged this, that was part and parcle of the Wolfovitz Doctrine. It only started objecting in the Obama years when it looked like it might have to do something.
I think weirdly, it's not the economics of Europe arming itself that's the problem. The EU's economy is vast. It's more that security politics became vulgar on the continent, and the safe option was just to let America make the hard choices and criticise it afterwards without helping.
US-ians think they're shouldering some incredible burden, but honestly the defence of Europe isn't much. Congress is tearing itself apart of 6 months over $95bn in 2nd hand arms, but they've spent $3tn of Federal money on entitlements under that time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think weirdly, it's not the economics of Europe arming itself that's the problem. The EU's economy is vast. It's more that security politics became vulgar on the continent, and the safe option was just to let America make the hard choices and criticise it afterwards without helping.
US-ians think they're shouldering some incredible burden, but honestly the defence of Europe isn't much. Congress is tearing itself apart of 6 months over $95bn in 2nd hand arms, but they've spent $3tn of Federal money on entitlements under that time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯