This is interesting. When a war in Europe breaks out, who has Europe traditionally turned to? Who are they turning to now? America has footed the bill for much of the security in Europe since WWII. Military bases in other countries support this effort. The alternative is abandoning this view and leaving Europe to fend for themselves. How popular of a choice would that be?
US military complex is like a hydra, in my home country we are paying for the second time for f16 fighter jets, which are not existent at all.
We are the poorest EU country, with record high mortality, with corrupt government coming one after another in the last 20 years.
We have more than 400 million dollars given to our local media outlets and NGO's, for the period of 2009-2021 by foundation which is named "America for <insert my home country name>".
My country joined NATO without any form of referendum. The list is long. And we are not alone. Europe will form a real defence Alliance in which we can have some form of control, instead of being colonial outlets for American interests in the region.
Enjoy that, I suppose. NATO nations enjoy a high level of peace and protection from the threats of nuclear war thanks to Americans footing the bill for their defense. We are largely happy to do it, but I think you’ll see a growing “ok, have fun without us” conversation with countries that aren’t realistic about America’s contributions. If we don’t spend spend spend to have the military resources to provide other countries, Ukraine would have likely fallen some time ago. Many more people would be dead.
What I think you don’t realize is that most normal Americans aren’t interested in providing military protection to countries that don’t want it. I’d suspect whatever country you’re in realizes that, and is willing to accept whatever pressure from the Americans in exchange for the support of the world’s largest military.
I will assume you're a fellow Bulgarian. At least find comfort in the fact that we've sold billions of USD worth of weapons to all those conflicts of the last 30 years. The part with the F16s is bullshit, as is most of your post.
If you find "a comfort" in the fact that your home country has sold weapons to all those conflicts, I rest my case.
In the meantime living standards of the regular people are in record low, mortality is in record high, education is broken, agriculture is non-existent, the army is weak, healthcare is rotten and there is not one politician prosecuted for corruption for 30 years.
This is more complicated. USA after WW2 wanted to dismantle colonial powers and reduce military of European countries. USA become hegemony and as such It needed to take responsibility. Today the world is becoming multipolar and US already tried to reduce involvement in Europe security by both Trump and Biden. Unfortunately German become old and greedy, France care more about African post colonies than Eastern Europe and UK decided that is not part of Europe.
