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We have deployable forces such that we don't need to call up the tank factory and submit a PO for more tracks. Did you think that the entire Army is forward deployed already?
No, but that's a different question. You're upset that Germany isn't moving with enough deliberate speed to increase their capabilities. But they're moving as fast as we would if we were trying to increase our capabilities. We couldn't bring a new tank division from order to deployment in less than five years, either. That's how long it takes to build 100 new tanks from scratch, and you can train the crew during that time.
They're moving fast.
I suggest you read Winston Churchill's The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914. In it you'll get a feel for just how belligerent the continental powers towards one another. Incidentally in WC's view World War 1 started with the Agadir Crisis in 1911. Today's Europe doesn't look anything like the Europe of a century ago.
Right - because it's under the Pax Americana. The entire national security profile of Europe is subordinate to the Big Boss (the U.S.) in terms of military capabilities, with all of the national militaries locked into a supporting role in NATO and having to adjust their international relations accordingly. You're talking about changing that. Reducing the American footprint, beefing up every individual national army, and getting them all to the point where they all have duplicative but fully independent military capacity. Inviting the Continent back into a situation where individual nations' national security isn't assured through collective security, but individual security.
You think that the Europe of a decade or two after you implement that will look like the Europe of today?
The federal deficit is $1.8T a year. Even a few hundred billion will help.
Except the OBBB already gave back that few hundred billion in just a few of the new tax cuts - leave aside the tax extensions and expansions. There's no support for the claim that this a component of some larger effort to restore fiscal stability to the U.S., rather than Trump's idee fixe that trade deficits mean other countries are ripping us off.
