Well, this is interesting: 73 years after the end of World War II, and 26 years after the Maastricht Treaty, French president Emmanuel Macron is calling on the European Union to begin taking responsibility for its own strategic security.
This is another of the issues that Donald Trump campaigned on. The generous public benefits offered by the European social democracies have been made possible, in part, by America’s having picked up the tab for Europe’s defense. These programs have already found themselves strained by Europe’s admission of millions of new dependents under self-flagellating immigration and refugee policies; shouldering the burden of the Continent’s military protection will squeeze them further. This in turn would, I think, focus increased public attention on the cost of mass immigration, and might help tip the balance of public opinion — which seems already to be shifting — against this suicidal folly.
Meanwhile, of course, we’d save a fortune over here. So: everybody wins.
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Except that our foreign aid is simply bribing other countries to do our bidding. Sure, everyone is better off without the bribery, but it is not something the ptb will give up easily.
We’ll see what happens.
I’ve been patiently waiting for my peace dividend but it never seems to arrive. I think my check was sent to Messrs. Boot and Kristol by mistake. I can see how that could happen. I’m sure they’ll be forwarding it along to me real soon now.