[JPKab]

Half the country isn't "compromised." We simply woke up to the fact that a continent of people that do nothing but mock and sneer at us refused to pay for their own defense, and we get nothing from it in return, other than having our exports tariffed at higher levels than EU exports to the US.

For the US, NATO is an obligation, of which the EU nations (with their lavish social spending and anemic defense spending) benefited from.

In 2014, the EU did NOTHING to help when Crimea was invaded. You continued to buy gas, and even bult new pipelines like Nordstream to continue to hand Putin money. I'm all for the EU to take on it's own protection and investing in militaries. World War II ended 80 years ago. Move on and grow up and pay for your own defense.

[ks2048]

> We get nothing in return

Isn't most US NATO spending just hand-outs to the US defense industry?

[anon291]

The vast majority of Americans are skeptical of our military-industrial complex

[francasso]

You were buying influence by spending your money on your own military.

But I agree that the EU should never have relied on the US for its own defense, I really hope that will change now.