Subject: Re: war with Denmark or Panama??
The one that understands that the Russians no long have the capability to project power globally and that the other main adversary is rapidly acquiring the capability to do so. Versus the one that thinks emptying out the US Treasury is a good idea.

Versus the one that understands that the Chinese are intently monitoring how the West responds to a military effort to seize territory as a way of assessing their position in Taiwan and other areas in the Asian theater.

See? People can disagree on tactics without denying that America has interests that need protecting.

Politicians make really bad short term decisions all the time.

Of course. But that doesn't mean that the person making the bad decision intended the decision to be bad. That people who advocate national security policies that you disagree with must actually just not care about the U.S. national security interest, rather than simply having different ideas about how to advance our national security than you do.

Look at Graph 2. The very picture of the word "Deadbeat".

How, exactly? Nearly every country in Europe is higher than the target 2% defense expenditure. Most of those are also above the equipment proportion as well. There's nothing in the graph to indicate size of GDP, but European expenditures on their own defense are collectively larger than U.S. expenditures on the continent. Even ex-Poland.

The U.S. isn't out there defending Europe on our own, Dope. EU military expenditures are sizable, and not just in Poland.