Trump (along with many Americans) certainly has a legit beef with European/NATO spending on defense or lack thereof. Threatening to pull out of NATO based on that is entirely appropriate now, and if they reverse policy (Labour won't, Germany can't without reversing on Russian gas) that would of course have them spending more with the US military industrial complex. But its silly to blame everything on the 1950/60s MIC trope when social spending has completely overwhelmed it.
And only so much US MIC spending because they have their own, including a number of good or good enough items, and for some time a good part of the US MIC is capacity limited. There's a few other non-Combloc or former Combloc players as well, South Korea for example has state of the art artillery, good tanks, and defined a new state of the art by creating self-sharpening tungsten kinetic kill tank ammo, vs. depleted uranium like the US uses.
Another major tension is that Europe has literally declared Musk to be public enemy #2, and Trump or Team Trump has remarked that such an action based on free speech is incompatible with us staying allies.
In general, to the extent Trump can rein in the US Deep State on population repression, the distance between the US and Europe will grow to the point we truly won't be compatible for this sort of thing, absent a big bad like the Evil Empire. "Putler" just isn't credible as such.
Another big problem is that France and the U.K. especially are rapidly turning Muslim, and that's not going to fly even if you don't count AIPAC and company. I've been wondering if and when we'll start sabotaging the U.K.'s nukes when they send them to us for tritium replenishment.
@ThatWouldBeTelling@_Seraphim_ > american grievences with euros nato spending nato's only purpose was ally americas with europe to "fight" soviets. whats nato's purpose since soviets broke up? go fight in the desert with no european strategic interest. bomb bosnia, bomb somali. euros are stuck in nato, french (Charles de Gaulle) tried to do a "euro army" to get independence, germany just built up a relationship with russia. all such efforts are broken up by america. the nato "spending" is american spending everyones money to pay american bomb companies to fight for american oil companies.
> they have their own stuff yes, they all want to make their own stuff, its cheaper. no one wants to be regulated "BY LAW" to spend their budget maintaining shit from GE/lockheed martin/boeing/raytheon. its not the toys that cost majority of the money, its the maintenance. this is down to things as small as radios. also americans like to show a pie chart of total spending, its propaganda, look at each countries spending against their own gdp. america spends half as much as the top 20. all to maintain gobalhomo empire. bosnia is a nato member, you want them to come up with 800 billion?
>musk he is irrelevant, euro politicans that talk about musk rather than prevalence of american social media control over europeans is retarded, in geo politics free speech is bullshit and can be ignored. just look at "cambridge analytica", you think manipulating euro elections is hard with facebook, twitter, instagram, discord, youtube + 200 plus news media companies.
>trump controls deep state lmao, he isnt even in the chair yet
>uk and france is turning majorty muslim. america fucked up middle east and used NGOs to brainwash europe into opening borders. this again is a euro grievance against america.
america needs to keep europe down(wealth transfer, brain drain), russia/china out. euros are gonna be "surprised" by the orange man back stab. china tried a last ditch olive branch to EU before the onset of the war by proposing to settle all future offshore payments to third party(brazil, russia, saudi) in EURO in winter 2022, got Baerbock instead, the zog whore Merkel had to send out of country to not fuck up germany. europe in the next 10 years will be in a very dark place, they will not be friendly to americans by the end.
@IAMAL_PHARIUS@ThatWouldBeTelling@_Seraphim_ we are already unfriendly towards them. the idea of america being the friend of the european people has died a long time ago. everyone here is either uncaring or openly hostile towards america. the only people that still suck there dicks are the soy creatures in universitys that hate themselves, or the political class that owes there jobs to them.