What do our “Allies” do for us?
I know what we do for them. We protect them. We spend our money on defense for them. We put American lives at risk for them.
Our “Allies” do not live up to their obligations (except for maybe 1 or 2) by spending 2% GDP on defense. They, generally, cannot field more than a token amount of support far less than their economic and population should. They, generally, are not supportive of our policies and objectives. And, again generally, simply seek their own gain at our expense.
So, why do we need “Allies”?
Just wow! I am having a lot of trouble visualizing just what Germany, Korea, or Japan “turning on us” would look like. I suspect most of us wouldn’t notice.
The “ NATO alliance is being fractured” because the largest economy in Europe is too cheap to pay for spares for their Navy. Result being Germany was not able to deploy a single sub for quite some time last year. NATO is in desperate need of reform and that is being blocked by Germany and it’s military-industrial complex supporters.