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Russia isn't the real threat.
China is. And NATO needs to arm up, fast.
When have you ever seen Trump issue any sort of direct challenge to Chinese military expansion in the South China Sea? Or echo any hunt of the assertion that Cina is the primary threat?
He does threaten China, but not in any way that he threatens every other country in the world, including Canada.
An exception does exist, however…….he hardly ever speaks against the threat posed by Russia, and even then-NEVER against Russia’s military/foreign policy.
In ww2, the primary threat was Germany in Europe. But the secondary threat of Japan was never forgotten, especially after 12/7/41.
Ukraine is the free world’s Pearl Harbor.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. In fact, we must do both. Europe, yes- they need to carry the heaviest load with Russia, but though your wish-casting assumes that this is Trump’s strategy, nothing in what he’s said remotely supports this.
In fact, he repeats Russian propaganda on the matter- in claiming falsely that Ukraine started the war, and in telling Ukraine that they’ve basically lost the war so they’d better settle on terms that Russia and the US have already negotiated for them (including the rape of its mineral wealth)
China is definitely the most serious threat, but Russia and China are allies. They are linked, just as the threats they pose are linked. We cannot run from one in order to confront the other. In fact, running from one may well insure that the other materializes more quickly than we are prepared to meet it ( and drastic cuts to our defense budget will insure that it happens sooner rather than later.
Trump is a direct threat to America’s security, and in light of what he has said and done, spinning favorable interpretations of what he has said and done does nothing except weaken your arguments further with the passing of every single day.
We may not like it….. but there it is.
