[rottweiller_inc]

I have to agree. Europe, the US, NATO, all are guilty of shortsightedness and hubris.

[MeganC]

“Europe, the US, NATO, all are guilty of shortsightedness and hubris.”

Precisely.

I remember as a child hearing about “The Peace Dividend” at the end of the Cold War when Europe, the US, and NATO decommissioned hundreds of military bases and warships thinking that The Age of Aquarius was at hand and the whole world was then going to hold hands and sing “Kumbaya”.

Now a lot of those bases are being reconsidered and even rebuilt. We’re reconsidering our naval power in the face of a Chinese Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The overt threats of the Russians to invade and occupy the former Soviet empire is causing the Europeans to increase defense spending.

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” and our leaders failed us in that regard.