[exiguus]

It’s always been convenient for Europeans to have America do the dirty work, which is why they could afford to keep military spending so low and deps to gas and oil high. That just doesn’t work anymore. And then there’s China, and I’m told that China has already surpassed the U.S. in many areas. If China takes Taiwan by force, we know that the West and the U.S. will have nothing left to stand up to them.