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Which political party has undermined the collective global response to Russian aggression in Europe? Or wants to reduce American dominance in the military theatre there?The one that understands that the Russians no long have the capability to project power globally and that the other main adversary is rapidly acquiring the capability to do so. Versus the one that thinks emptying out the US Treasury is a good idea.
Just because a political party holds a position that you believe is bad doesn't mean they don't believe in advancing American interests. They just might have a different theory on how best to advance those interests.Politicians make really bad short term decisions all the time. It was never a good idea to give the Chinese rocket technology, yet we did it.
Again, just not true. European defense spending in 2015 (before Trump) was $328 billion, compared to U.S. $596 expenditures globally. So it's dead certain that Europe was spending more to defend Europe than the U.S. was spending to defend Europe. The UK and France alone spent more than Russia's entire military expenditure (and above the 2% of their GDP, if you're wondering).nato.int - Def exp enLook at Graph 2. The very picture of the word "Deadbeat". And yes, many of these outfits shat cornerstone-sized bricks when Putin rolled into the Ukraine...hence the big spike in countries actually doing something starting in 2023.
