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Good! I’m a US citizen who was raised in US military bases in foreign countries. Allies of the USA need to spend a lot more on their military.

USA people don’t realize that military spending doubly impacts society. Not only did your tax money go to getting a new bomber airplane that a civilian has no use for but the energy and effort that might have been used to create improved railway infrastructure (for example) never happened. After enough generations in relative isolation from other global societies, the populace doesn’t even realize what they are missing out on.

Hopefully i die before the next stupid completely useless world war humans want to have, in their pea sized brains.

You misspelled "against" (as opposed to without)

Yep...they are fucked

What Russia has proven with Ukraine is that they are a paper tiger. They've spent so long trying to build this image that they are second only to the US in military might, but then they began scraping their barrels to deploy troops to Ukraine. I think the EU could eradicate the Russian government with just the troops we have today, and then some.

However, where Russia's strength lies is their control and manipulation of information. Russian agents all over are funding and supporting political parties that destabilize the country they're in, removing them from the fight before they begin. Their greatest victory in that is the US. We see there exactly what Russia wants for the EU. That's where we need to up our defenses.

It really doesn't appear that Russia is able to mount a tank offensive anywhere after all their losses in Ukraine

TBH, this was one of the things the GOP has kind of right, but as is their way they go about it in all the wrong ways. Europe has relied on US troop presence since WWII, and it’s allowed them to find a balance between high-ish taxes and strong social safety nets. In the past couple decades, as things have gotten more expensive, cracks have formed in this arrangement. Now they need to actually meet their NATO commitments, and keep the people happy by maintaining the safety nets without raising taxes. Good luck with that! Oh, and they also have to do all of this with the growing popularity of far right nationalist movements across the continent! Good times are ahead for all!

EDIT: Sorry if I gave the impression that I think the US will benefit in any way from this arrangement. We are absolutely abdicating our place on the world stage by doing this. I was only talking about the European side of this. Continuing to see the US as a reliable ally is a lost cause, and any international leaders who don't see this are in danger of a very rude awakening. Trump and his cronies have shown that they don't value allies at all - only unceasing loyalty, and even that doesn't guarantee anything. That demand devalues the sovereignty of the nations to whom they think they will be able to dictate terms! I fear the old saying "It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it." will haunt the US for more than a generation (not to say that all the US has done was good, but a lot of good was done). And to be clear, when I say "the US" I mean the entirety of the US. I never voted for Trump, but I'm included in that. Our voters and many/most of our leaders simply can no longer be counted on as allies by other free and democratic countries. At this point, I'm not even really looking forward to the midterm elections.

The original source:

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/defending-europe-without-us-first-estimates-what-needed

The context is about member states matching the lost military power from the US, without implementing an EU army.

I mean...Russia has the second strongest military inside of Russia. I think they'll be fine if they want to go ahead and kick in the door.