Ask me if I care.

Needless to say, [recent U.S. actions] greatly angered European leaders who were evidently convinced the US would continue to station troops, send weapons, and provide funding for the continent’s security while letting the governments act however they wanted and while treating them as the primary parties in the proxy war we’ve been bankrolling.^<1>

The number one priority for European governments is for them all to pay for the security they think they need from whatever monster they think threatens their neighborhood.

The entire “Russian threat” is a vicious invention but if the Europeans want to believe otherwise and shovel money down the drain to fund an entirely unnecessary, though useless, “defense” establishment that’s up to them.

To use basic psychotherapy terminology, the U.S. has acted as an enabler of the Europeans. They got to prance about playing at great players on the world stage while they fawn over illegal immigrants and build their cradle-to-the-grave welfare utopias. Just hope that you don’t need to go to the emergency room with something more serious than a broken finger. Or that you don’t feel the need to express yourself freely about the accelerating destruction of your country by foreigners and a traitorous ruling class.

With the exception of, maybe, France, European conventional forces are a joke. Germany’s military is a joke for sure and the mighty British navy is a glorified coast guard with a nuclear submarine auxilliary. If the Europeans won’t get serious about threat assessment and military preparedness I don’t see why the U.S. should pick up the slack.

Notes.
^<1>“Trump Cannot Allow A Declining Europe To Drag The US Down.” By Connor O’Keefe, ZeroHedge, 2/20/25.