Europe may have to build their own alliance. Maybe NATO will be gone as we voted for it.
Having said that, Europe alliance is no joke. They also have nuclear...
Their soldiers shed blood during our very long occupation in Afghanistan as part of their treaty obligations. They have been negligent in the 2% gpd spending target. This is hardly a good reason for us to discard the alliance and our relationship with our allies. We’ve threatened to annex Canada and Greenland. It’s not a winning strategy to threaten your allies.
If Putin had an FSB agent as President would that person materially have done anything different than Trump has done these past 4 weeks? We are being led by traitors.
No non European nation in the history of ever has done more for the safety and prosperity of Europe then America.
And we have benefited greatly by doing this. It wasn’t pure altrusim on our part.
Not everybody has the luxury of running the worlds currency, and running 3-4 trillion dollars deficits unchecked for 20 years in a row.
But reading US press, one could think it's a small, struggling group of countries, sliding into insignificance. This is mostly based on somewhat false narratives, and stock market capitalizations, which are currently at historical bubble levels in the US.
While in reality, Europe is an economic powerhouse, very strong in a lot of important industries (guess what company has a de-facto worldwide monopoly on machines used to make computer chips ?), has an excellent education system and fairly stable institutions.
We just need an electrochoc. Trump / Vance may just have delivered this much. They may be surprised by what's coming next though.