In 2024, Trump will most likely be in power again.
And then what? To all our Eastern European Member States; don’t think for a moment that Trump actually gives a fuck about you.
We don’t just need to get to 2% NATO spending… We need to ramp up and build our own defense structure in no-time…
The US is a generally reliable partner at the best of times, but we’re not going into the best of times. We’re also probably going to see another US president who at best couldn’t care less about europe after Biden. We just can’t rely on a state like that.
Not to say we shouldn’t keep an alliance with the US if reasonably possible, they’re still a leagues better partner than Rusia or China, but if it comes down to it, we need to be able to defend ourselves from russian, or any other, aggression without us-american help.
If we ever want to be an equal to the other world powers, to have genuine agency in a world dominated by giant blocks, we need to stand in unison against threats, and we need to ensure that our common defence is prepared.
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Stating the obvious here.
In 2024, Trump will most likely be in power again.
And then what? To all our Eastern European Member States; don’t think for a moment that Trump actually gives a fuck about you.
We don’t just need to get to 2% NATO spending… We need to ramp up and build our own defense structure in no-time…
The US is a generally reliable partner at the best of times, but we’re not going into the best of times. We’re also probably going to see another US president who at best couldn’t care less about europe after Biden. We just can’t rely on a state like that.
Not to say we shouldn’t keep an alliance with the US if reasonably possible, they’re still a leagues better partner than Rusia or China, but if it comes down to it, we need to be able to defend ourselves from russian, or any other, aggression without us-american help.
If we ever want to be an equal to the other world powers, to have genuine agency in a world dominated by giant blocks, we need to stand in unison against threats, and we need to ensure that our common defence is prepared.