You're doing what all liberals here do: you're taking liberal opinion as fact.

Not at all. I never said anything like that.

The piece I posted explains in part why the stance was taken in the 2025 doc.

OK. But we are walking away from an alliance that's been around for 75 years. How do we benefit? Doesn't seem like we do, could you explain? We know about weapons and ammo, tell us how it benefits our companies, economy, people, democracy, foreign relations, other strategic alliances, to walk away from the alliance. Tell us how that benefits our relationship with China and the ROW. Doesn't seem to, seems to play into the hands of Russia, China, and possibly Persia. How can we be trusted if we abruptly walk away from alliances just when we are needed?

Listing European woes doesn't explain how walking away is a strategic benefit for us. That's what all of us want to know. You list an opinion piece critical of Europe and we know all of that, there's no need to repeat it. TELL US HOW WE BENEFIT IN FOREIGN POLICY VIEWS AND TERMS. Does it open up European trade? Does it open up any trade anywhere? And how much do we lose vs benefit? What are the trade offs?

Because I don't see how we benefit at all. It seems we may not have to support a few billion dollars, but we lose more in trade. It looks like overall we lose. We had a nascent alliance against China and we are showing them we are an unreliable.