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Your piece does nothing to address the problem stated above - that we are trashing an alliance that has kept our known world safe, and that we are going back to spheres of influence, etc. It simply blames Europe for its problems, an opinion piece, but you are avoiding any commentary on the above.You're doing what all liberals here do: you're taking liberal opinion as fact.
The piece I posted
explains in part why the stance was taken in the 2025 doc.
Your piece does nothing to address the problem stated above - that we are trashing an alliance that has kept our known world safe,It's clear you didn't read it.
So exactly what are your ideas on trashing the alliance? And no, I don't want to hear about how it's all Europe's fault. I want to hear a foreign policy explanation on what we gain, what we lose, how you determine that, and how it is to our advantage to abandon the alliance instead of reforging it. I don't really care what you want to hear or what you don't want to hear. That's irrelevant.
It's very simple: If Europe wants to a decent partner and play lumberjack, they have to step up and handle their end of the log.
What is NATO for? It's a mutual defense alliance. An alliance that has only a handful of nations that actually have some kind of capability. Note that "capability" has multiple meanings.
So what good is NATO if its most important members in Europe can barely field any equipment. This has been going for years:
https://www.dw.com/en/german-ministers-at-odds-ove...State of Bundeswehr's arsenal
The parliamentary debate came amid a heated national discussion over the state of the German army's own equipment. At the end of September, von der Leyen, who belongs to the Christian Democrat Party (CDU) admitted major shortfalls in the Bundeswehr's equipment.
She also said Germany would at present be unable to meet NATO requirements.
"With our airborne systems, we are currently below the target figures announced one year ago defining what we would want to be able to make available to NATO within 180 days, in the case of an emergency," Defense Minister von der Leyen told the "Bild am Sonntag" newspaper on September 27. "Delays for replacement parts for our planes and the missing helicopters are the reason for this."
The Bundeswehr was forced last month to admit that large parts of its equipment, including tanks, helicopters and fighter jets, were in such a state of disrepair that they could not currently be used. The bulk of the German air force is currently grounded, with 42 of its 109 Eurofighters and only 38 of 89 Tornado fighters ready for deployment. The list of grounded equipment goes on.It hasn't gotten any better since 2014.
https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/germ...After decades of military downsizing, German military spending is woefully inadequate to meet the new strategic challenge posed by Russia—as both a new report by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and the new Kiel Military Procurement Tracker show. In combination with a cumbersome national procurement system and depending on weapon systems it would take Germany as much as a century to bring its military inventory up to the level of 20 years ago. In contrast, Russia is radically increasing its capacity to produce armaments, including advanced systems, and is now in a position to produce as many weapons in six months as all of Germany’s armed forces currently field.Ooops.
The 2025 NSS calls for the Europeans to step up and do something for themselves. Trump isn't interested in defending Europe right down to the last American and Pole.
