Winkler, Manitoba Canada | jicasedeere - 4/2/2025 21:53
As far as your last paragraph is concerned, I mean no disrespect, but I disagree with you on not having a presence over there. Like I said in another post, be careful what you wish for. It's actually much cheaper for us to be a NATO partner and have a military presence over there, vs. let them be....If we were to pull out of the world stage completely (leave NATO, cut all military aid to Europe) what you will have is a massive rearmament of European nations. Right now we know pretty much exactly what they have, where it came from, how it operates, and even have a set of keys to use it ourselves. ( Because you're right it is mostly our stuff anyway)....I would much rather have that than, some bad actors making their nukes, drones, ships, planes, munitions. Then god forbid if bombs did start flying in western Europe, if they can't hold their own, now you have all the weapons pointed back at us from an adversary instead of the other way around. We've had 80 years of relative peace in the world. Yes there have been hot spots, but nothing to the level of a massive global conflict. This is all because of our presence and alliances we've kept in Europe. I'm not saying we shouldn't hold their feet to fire a little more, but it would be a massive mistake to pull out completely. It would put the USA in harms way.
Just a discussion, I hold no angst in my reply. I don't like paying for all this either, but I worry that not paying it would have grave consequences to our economy, world peace, and our own national security.
As the USA led by Trump withdraws from the world stage/leadership things change. Europe is seriously looking at producing their own weapons. Not a surprise. When the relationships built over many years are suddenly thrown into question, the perks of that relationship, in this case armament purchases, are also questioned.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-...
On another trade question, how is it that the USA thinks that the dollar will be the world reserve currency when the supposed goal is a zero trade deficit. Is that a fiscal possibility? It would seem that there has to be away for all those dollars in circulation to get there. Isn't trade deficits the way the dollar gets into circulation? Just some pondering......
Edited by WTW 4/2/2025 23:45
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Tariff issue is hard for me.....
