"Well, I think it is a good thing that the other NATO countries are now contributing more of their GDP to defense than before Trump came on the scene"

Have to admit, I agree with that. I will give Trump credit for forcing NATO Countries to
kick in more for their defense, assuming that is what is happening. I hate the way he
handled it, he alienated our Allies in the process. And in fairness to the Euro Countries,
the USA has always wanted to keep Countries like Germany from becoming strong militarily, after the devastation of WWII, so it seems like we tacitly approved of that NATO status quo for all
of these decades.

We will see how it all works out, though. China is on the same landmass as Europe ( yeah, I know
it's considered 2 different continents ), and a Euro-China partnership looks like it'd be
a pretty potent alignment. Did Trump drive the Euro's towards China ? Time will tell.