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Now that the “sugar daddy” is no longer around, EU has to fend for itself.
For the last 8 years, the US has been insisting on higher defence spending from it’s NATO “allies”. Trump has all along insisted that defence budget should ideally be at least 5% of the national budget for any NATO nation. All we heard were empty promises, plans and false commitments.
Now that push has come to shove, the EU seems to be stepping up. Good news indeed.
As for Canada, it is a laggard and a liability for both NATO as well as the EU. Nothing much can be expected from it. It will forever remain content with being a lackey of other powerful nations or blocs. Now that President Trump has taken action against it, the Canadian ministers have gone crying to the EU to see if it could help them. The Canadian “strategy” seems to be to change it’s sugar daddy – from USA to the EU.
This very clearly shows that the EU had the financial resources all along. If it could muster 800 billion euros within a few days of the US threatening to pull out of the Ukraine war, it simply means that it had the wherewithal all along.
Just because the US, acting like an idiot, splurged on the war effort and sent advanced military equipment, the EU chose to take the backseat and let the US lead. Now that the US has backed out, it’s quite clear that the EU can manage the situation on it’s own.
This should serve as a lesson to US defence strategists. Don’t get involved in conflicts in other continents when the nations there can manage the issue without your involvement.
Now that the “sugar daddy” is no longer around, EU has to fend for itself.
For the last 8 years, the US has been insisting on higher defence spending from it’s NATO “allies”. Trump has all along insisted that defence budget should ideally be at least 5% of the national budget for any NATO nation. All we heard were empty promises, plans and false commitments.
Now that push has come to shove, the EU seems to be stepping up. Good news indeed.
As for Canada, it is a laggard and a liability for both NATO as well as the EU. Nothing much can be expected from it. It will forever remain content with being a lackey of other powerful nations or blocs. Now that President Trump has taken action against it, the Canadian ministers have gone crying to the EU to see if it could help them. The Canadian “strategy” seems to be to change it’s sugar daddy – from USA to the EU.
This very clearly shows that the EU had the financial resources all along. If it could muster 800 billion euros within a few days of the US threatening to pull out of the Ukraine war, it simply means that it had the wherewithal all along.
Just because the US, acting like an idiot, splurged on the war effort and sent advanced military equipment, the EU chose to take the backseat and let the US lead. Now that the US has backed out, it’s quite clear that the EU can manage the situation on it’s own.
This should serve as a lesson to US defence strategists. Don’t get involved in conflicts in other continents when the nations there can manage the issue without your involvement.