Die Angriffe des amerikanischen Präsidenten zwingen Europa, die Verteidigungspläne nach Amerika zu beschleunigen – Die Ära der amerikanischen „Sicherheitsgarantie“ für Europa ist vorbei, sagte ein deutscher Abgeordneter und ehemaliger Militäroffizier.

„The era of America’s “security guarantee” for Europe is over“ is a roundabout way of saying the US, by their own official policy, is now an enemy of Europe/considers europe an enemy in need of subjugation.

I dunno, has the Polish political class woken up yet?

How was this ever a thing, European nations not having strong militaries and counting on someone else to protect them? It was unfathomable to me growing up – that we, with our military history and fertile lands,
were under someone else’s security umbrella and importing food! It’s so weird and fucked an unnatural, especially when you’re counting on an alien people who can’t point you out on a map.

So what other countries besides Russia (and apparently the USA) does Europe need protection from?

Things rarely make sense these days but 80 years of soft power has greatly benefited the US. The US military industrial complex would not be the size it is if the US hadn’t been favored through soft power in each and every single defense procurement for at least 7 decades.

Throwing the soft power away like this is costly. No one is sitting around waiting to reestablish soft power with the US when the administration change. The consequences of what is happening right now will echo for several decades, the void will be filled by other players, mainly by Europe itself.

American products represented an entire geopolitical paradigm. Everything from software and services, military equipment, security frameworks to chocolate bars and soft drinks. The sale of this „merchandize“ enriched America.

Isolationism is relatively easy to do, but reconquering the hearts of Europeans will require more than making Top Gun 3 and time is running out because the void is reluctantly but firmly and perpetually being filled with European military power.

It is understandable if it was unsustainable for the US, but the price of leaving might be equally as unsustainable.

The European Military Complex is about make a hard entry that won’t disappear in this century.

United States of Russia

It’s only been six years since Macron said NATO was „brain dead“. I’m sure some white papers, summits, communiques and symposiums will be on track to have a framework to implement phase 1 of this by about 2075.

The weird thing is America never gave us a blanket security guarantee. There is a reason our militaries were so strong up to the 90s.

We kind of invented the guarantee in a collective delusion as we abandoned military expenditure in favor of welfare.