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I agree with everything else you wrote. But I question this. The US has been very tepid against Russia.Oh, I'm just trying to extend the courtesy to Dope of taking seriously MAGA's stated assertion that U.S. policy towards Europe is to force them to be more self-reliant and capable of independently resisting a potential Russian threat. MAGA foreign policy has generally been very critical of what they identify as European weakness vis-a-vis Russia, specifically including their dependence on Russia as a critical source of energy. MAGA considers the rather harsh approach of the U.S. to Europe as being an effort to force them to stand on their own and depend less on the U.S. as a bulwark against a Russian threat,
including diplomatic efforts to encourage Europe to wean itself off of Russian energy supplies.
Trump has personally expressed that message:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/business/trump-.......but it also seems to be a consistent position of the MAGA approach to Europe, namely that they're compromising their own security by relying on Russian imports rather than becoming more energy independent (or importing more from the U.S.).
