IMO NATO is an anachronism. We need to form alliances with central and eastern European nations (including Russia) along with many Asian nations. We need to isolate China unless they tone down their bullying in the region.
We should distance ourselves from western Europe unless they pull back from committing cultural suicide.
Time to tie tariffs to Defense spending levels too.
If you are Germany you get to choose . . . spend a target amount on defense over and above the previous year or spend it on American imports. Their choice. If they’re smart they’ll buy planes from Lockheed, tanks from whoever, etc.
Poland doesn’t trust the Western Europeans. They have long memories. The Western Europeans are the ones after WWII that sold them down the drain to the Soviet Union in the first place.
Germany with their gas pipeline doesn’t care a wit about Poland, the Baltics, Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc...
The Europeans, east and west, do not hate Donald Trump.
In fact, in honor of his visit, European stock exchanges rose today by healthy margins: the French rose .97%, the German .61%, and the British .78%.
The Europeans must be as fed up with their economic-stagnation-producing Establishments as Americans were before they elected Donald Trump — who is a much more inspiring leader, a virtual rock star, compared to Angela Merkel and Theresa May who can barely keep their coalitions from collapsing.
We should move our military to Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, etc.