No. of Recommendations: 4
DOPE:Some folks on this board have a very stilted understanding of the word "alliance". An "alliance" isn't a thing where one member of it pays all the money and provides all the effort while the other "members" hang out at the bar.
Some people are thick and think we pay all the money, like Trump. There is no "pot" where all the money goes in. Each country is supposed to spend 2% of it's GDP on it's defense budget. Obama had it worked out that countries would be up to 2% by this year, but some countries hit that figure very early. The problem they have is that they haven't built up the armament and munitions manufacturing capability right now.
The other problem is that there seems to be a large anti-democratic force within MAGA that wants authoritarianism.. It's puzzling because it increasingly looks pro-Israeli, anti-Democratic, and yes - anti-American pro Putin. How did we get here?
