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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Trump is telling Europe it should be able to stand on its own militarily. What's wrong with that?
Merkel doesn't like this because she believes America should protect the EU, pay the lion's share of NATO budgets and make up most of NATO forces.
With EU/US GDPs running at near parallel lines, why should America foot the bill?
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nothing really wrong with that except the fact that the reason for having a military-defence was not caused by Europe (except France and Britain).
but one thing is sure and there you are completely right - Europe did nothing to prevent the circumstances we have to deal with now.
and the other thing what is wrong is, that he can nor order countries how much they have to spend for their own protection. if it is nessecary they will do it alone.
the one and only reason why trump wants that is, that he want to sell the weapons.
america is a war nation with a war economy and to keep the trades going he needs more war nations BUT Europe accepted that for centuries and have to decide now how to go on.
the worst what can happen (also for trump) is that Germany goes back to use his technological and engeneering power to produce that ugly stuff again and take this market over. i really HOPE that this will never happen again.