@georgetakei
Too bad our traitor in chief says otherwise

@ChrisHolladay @georgetakei

Yeah the solution to this whole situation really should have been a no-brainer..

We had billions to throw away in Iraq- twice, once to prop up a tiny micro-nation run by a medieval feudal monarchy running a petro state, and the second time for nonexistant WMD that we were lied to about, and also in Afghanistan where in 20+ years of US involvement, life for people there has hardly changed.. much less changed for the better.

But it has uncovered decades of incompetence and bungling and almost criminally negligent under-funding by the European members of NATO..

Also a sort of social malaise present in Europe's largest economies, also slowly fed for decades until it became the monster it is today.

It's been quite a wakeup call.. Europe's largest economies have demonstrated that they are not the strong partners the US thought they had been building for the last 80 years (after spending billions over decades to rebuild them after WW2).

@FelisCatusDomesticus @ChrisHolladay @georgetakei

Why? Isn't pushing the neoliberal agenda around the world exactly what the USA wanted from us, all these decades?

@juergen_hubert @ChrisHolladay @georgetakei

Whatever US agendas may or may not have been in those years, it still does not explain (or excuse) this..

#NATO_slackers

#the_numbers_tell_their_own_story

@FelisCatusDomesticus @ChrisHolladay @georgetakei

The deal always was:

"The USA is the primary security guarantor of Germany, and in return Germany acquiesces to being part of the American hegemony."

And that deal worked to the satisfaction of both sides for several generations.