Russia has an economy the size of Italy. Europe can handle it if they want to. If they don’t care enough to defend themselves, we shouldn’t either.
“Russia has an economy the size of Italy. Europe can handle it if they want to. If they don’t care enough to defend themselves, we shouldn’t either.”
And in truth, NATO’s “umbrella of protection” financed to a very large degree by the US for all these years since the end of WWII, has allowed its “European members” to build Socialist countries with “other people’s money supplied indirectly through their “membership” in NATO by the United States. NATO is one of America’s biggest “kick me” signs that is firmly affixed to our wallet.
Soviet Union fed 80% of their GDP to military despite the people starving. Russia has most of that armament now and it still largely works. Things like tanks, APCs, howitzers or even rockets don’t expire that quickly.
Pat would have more credibility if he talked about tossing Turkey, but perhaps his Arabism keeps him from doing so.