Why doesn’t Obama schedule a withdrawal of US troops from Europe? It’s time that the Europeans defend themselves. And it won’t be as easy for them to support a socialist economy when they have a defense budget.
At the end of the cold war the smart move would have been for the US to ditch NATO (just as Russia ditched the Warsaw pact) and for the USA and the USSR to have formed a mutual defense pact. Nobody would have been able to take on both the US and the former USSR.
Instead, the “one worlders” at the State Dept. wanted to expand NATO to include just about every country in the world—which naturally meant pushing Russia into a corner. What reaction did the State Dept. expect from Russia after that?