Originally Posted By: sinij
[quote=Cheerio]
The Germans, and all NATO countries, live under the aegis of US protection, freeing up their budgets for the sort of vast social spending that you, Sinij, appear to advocate.


Who are you protecting "the world" against? These days war is waged in finances and cyberspace, you only need bare minimum 'boots on the ground' to keep occasional backwards dictator in check. The world moved on, your views have not.

Is it really? So Hezbollah has stopped firing rockets at Israel and is now just launching DoS attacks? The Iranian have renounced nuclear weapons and are in the counterfeit business?
To the point, the "bare minimum" sum total of all European NATO powers was UNABLE to remove a backwards dictator without US help. Remember how well NATO handled the breakup of Yugoslavia??
It's not a matter of whose views have moved on, as you stated, but human nature.

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