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Originally Posted by someone123
I don't like Trump and think he is a terrible choice for president (again) but this may be for the best in the long run. Europe can and should look after itself. This may be a self-defeating strategy for the USA; I'd rather see Europe defend against Russia and other countries than have them rely on incompetent American leaders to solve their security problems. And the timing is actually kind of nice since Russia and China have ruined their reputation so much now in the EU. I don't think WW2 era fears about Germany or Japan are relevant these days.
Canada needs its own proper military too and shouldn't be far behind a country like France on the world stage in this century.
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This is exactly my pov.
While I think we, as Canadians, should throw our weight around a little more given our size, we can get away with abdicating our defense responsibilities to the States because we are firmly in their geographical orbit, separated from our adversaries by the same oceans, and we're self-sufficient in energy.
A country like Germany had the past twenty years to have its cake and eat it too. With no significant energy resources of its own, it relied on cheap Russian gas, let the Americans pick up its security tab, and propped up an artificially low currency that allowed it to have export advantages that destroyed the economies of its European partners - notably Mediterranean countries - that it then gave lectures to about austerity. Watching them fall apart gives me a sense of (no pun intended)
schadenfreude.
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