Subject: Re: The Brits have...about 25 tanks
The various militaries of NATO other than the US contain about 2 million active-duty personnel.

With zero equipment.

No less so than we're being a good neighbor by enabling fentanyl to flow over the border. Drug interdiction is difficult, and all three nations are devoting a lot of resources to stop it

Mexico has been especially bad. They allow transit of caravan after caravan to just flow on through. They’re not exactly the most corruption-free government on the planet, either.

It's dumb. The Administration wants to impose tariffs on those countries, but we have binding treaty obligations with them (which Trump negotiated!) that prohibit those tariffs

Are they prohibited?


. It implies that other nations will engage in their own calculus over whether it serves their interests to oppose China's sphere of influence, join China's sphere of influence, or be somewhere in between. The more that the U.S. acts as an unreliable partner, the more that we pressure weak countries to give up their resources (Ukraine) or assets (Panama) or territory (Denmark), the less compelling an alternative we are

Uh, huh. Go ask the Italians how they feel about China right now. Plus I think you’re going to start hearing a very different tune come out of Germany very shortly - one that leaves no doubt with whom it wants to partner. Ditto Poland and the other Eastern European states.

So when we’re talking about Disgruntled Europeans, we’re really talking about:
-The French, who always take the “will they or won’t they” path when it comes to supporting the US.
-The Brits, who only have a left government because Nigel Farage wanted the conservatives to fail and fail hard. Kerri Starmer is deeply unpopular
-The rest of the WEF set, who think they know better than everyone else.

The entire line of reasoning taken by the left in this and every other foreign debate starts with an assumption that the status quo is just great amd Trump is miles out of line. That’s so many shades of wrong I don’t know where to begin with it.