Subject: Re: war with Denmark or Panama??
As they say, ball don’t lie. 39 fighter jets is a joke.

Yeah, ball don't lie - European nations are spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year on their own defense, more than the U.S.

Germany doesn't have a lot of fighter jets? Why should they? Fighter jets are literally among the most mobile pieces of military equipment that exist - you don't need every NATO country to have their own fighter jets, so long as enough are available to NATO forces. Since the U.S. has such a huge Air Force (and air bases in Germany), it would be a massive misallocation of defense resources for Germany to try to build up sizable air resources other than what might need to be immediately on hand.

How many NATO ships really did anything in the Red Sea?

The U.S. is part of NATO, so I'd say - nearly all the ships that engaged were part of NATO? NATO isn't intended to replace the armed forces of the member nations the way our national army replaced the state militias/armies that existed in colonial days. NATO exercises military power through the forces of its members, for the most part. There are independent forces that are entirely under NATO, an arrangement that can be important diplomatically since it allows NATO to engage in operations without them being necessarily a national operation. But generally, NATO works through its member militaries.