Yes let's keep up foreign relations where we pay for people to arm themselves against us (china). Or we pay for the defense of people who won't pay to defend themselves (EU).
> "we pay for people to arm themselves against us"
Sounds like you want a completely isolationist trade policy. How has that worked out for the US in the past? The only way to never pay another country to arm themselves against us or any other country is to never give them money, and unless we force them at gunpoint to give us what we want that is not going to happen.
> "we pay for the defense of people who won't pay to defend themselves"
The EU doesn't spend 0% on defense. Many of them are NATO members who are increasing their spending and who have demonstrated that they'll follow us into war after we are attacked (Afghanistan as an example). The US gets far more in soft power/geopolitical benefits out of our European allies and NATO members than we put in.
Regular reminder that the only time article 5 of NATO was invoked, it was USA asking others to help them in war they actually wanted.
And when unwanted war became possble in EU came USA ended up allying itself with Russia while trying to extort the victim country for minerals. It did helped initially, but it did not lasted and USA turned into a bully.
All the while threatening annexation of parts of EU and Canada.
ahmeneeroe-v2|11 months ago
DrillShopper|11 months ago
Sounds like you want a completely isolationist trade policy. How has that worked out for the US in the past? The only way to never pay another country to arm themselves against us or any other country is to never give them money, and unless we force them at gunpoint to give us what we want that is not going to happen.
> "we pay for the defense of people who won't pay to defend themselves"
The EU doesn't spend 0% on defense. Many of them are NATO members who are increasing their spending and who have demonstrated that they'll follow us into war after we are attacked (Afghanistan as an example). The US gets far more in soft power/geopolitical benefits out of our European allies and NATO members than we put in.
NicoJuicy|11 months ago
Learn history :)
lucasyvas|11 months ago
2OEH8eoCRo0|11 months ago
watwut|11 months ago
And when unwanted war became possble in EU came USA ended up allying itself with Russia while trying to extort the victim country for minerals. It did helped initially, but it did not lasted and USA turned into a bully.
All the while threatening annexation of parts of EU and Canada.
quickthrowman|11 months ago