With the Cold War’s end, American spending dropped in Europe – a drop that coincided with Europeans beginning to have problems funding all their social services. Trump, however, has taken things to the next level by demanding that Europeans start helping to pay for their own defense. (Indeed, Europeans have long promised to pay for that defense but they consistently failed to fulfill those promises.)
It turns out that Europeans are not pleased to be called out to make good on their promises. In addition, they’re discovering that those gauche, bullying Americans were, in fact, a very useful bulwark against evil in the world
Europeans, though, want a return to the status quo: They want once again to get the benefit of American money, without spending their own, while retaining the moral high ground to hector and belittle America:
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