But more than a penurious attitude toward collective defense is involved here. The cruel fact is that a sense of moral superiority counts for very little when action is called for, and the ability to craft a post-crisis narrative excusing inaction doesn't really help anyone but the idle spectators. "I could have done it better" is, after the virtue signalling is stripped out, "I didn't".
This is, as well, a Europe whose ruling class has openly attempted to alter its internal demographics in pursuit of a sustainable welfare state, a process that will only accelerate given the difference in reproduction rate between the natives and the newcomers. This can only be described as a fundamental alteration of the nation itself, whose citizens were never consulted about it and many of whom now view the activity with the alarm it deserved in the first place. It's probably already too late to rectify the matter - one generation in and they'll be attempting to deport the native-born. That was very much by design.
So there are issues of much greater significance than the price of Mercedes-Benz automobiles in Topeka. Europe is going to have to grow up, fast, and it didn't really have to be that way.
I’m of Northern European stock and thereby naturally accused of ‘racism’ but my view of darker peoples is nothing like the utter contempt of my own “people”
The people of Africa and the Americas were stone age people adapting to a”civilized world”
Our people have no such excuse and should act like modern civilised people.
So I say “F%ck (Western) Europe” and their Euro trash overlords.
We kicked their asses in every war we fought with them and by the grace of God and by Samuel Colt we will kick their ass in any future conflict.
(Thank God and President Trump, it feels good to be an American again)
(Yep, I’m feelin “froggy” this morning)