[sremani]

How would you reconcile that with the fact that his wife is Slovenian? Things are complex and you can simplify to fit your label of the day.

NATO commitments are a joke, when outside of Britan and few Eastern European countries, Germany, Netherlands, France are not spending to their commitments so why should Americans subsidize their mega-welfare states?

Here is a fact, Germany has about 330 or so battle ready tanks and most of them are made before 1980. That is some abysmal commitment to NATO.

[cronin101]

Do you really believe that the world would be a safer place if Germany had a greater number of "battle ready tanks"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-end-of-t...

[NhanH]

Do you really believe that the world would be a better place if the US has more commitment to NATO?

[thatfrenchguy]

"France are not spending to their commitments"

You seem to have forgotten that France is one of the countries with the highest military spending in the world (not that it pleases me).

[sremani]

Based on http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

France 2.1% of GDP. The consensus number is more of less 3%.

edit: I was wrong, 2% is the right number.

[drzaiusapelord]

Actually its 2%. Only the UK, Poland, Greece, and Estonia reached those levels in 2015.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/15/news/nato-spending-countries...

You are right, the German military is at best a target for the Russians to calibrate their weapons and to draw the US in.

[achamayou]

Whose consensus? Only five countries in the world spend more than 3%, and at 2.1% France is the largest spender in NATO behind the US.

Russia spends less than France and Italy combined in dollars. In % of GDP, China is at 1.9%. Just below France and the UK.

[ultrasandwich]

> How would you reconcile that with the fact that his wife is Slovenian?

What is there to reconcile here? Sexual interest never got in the way of xenophobia. Never stopped slave owners from sexually assaulting their "property".