Post #12998 by oddhack on the US Policy board

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US started this very unnecessary war. We could have gradually pressured NATO countries to spend more on defense, negotiated (/strong-armed) trade deals to reduce deficits, any number of sane sensible measures putting America First, without a sudden war.

We can at least say that having the former security guarantor of Europe and Canada effectively ally with their (formerly) greatest enemy, while repeatedly and frequently threatening to conquer them by force, has produced a very rapid increase in their (announced) security spending. Granted that most of it will need to go to defend against said security guarantor.

I doubt that offers to sell US "protection" are going to find a lot of takers among the protectees, but I suspect the size of the nuclear club will grow significantly in coming years.

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