The U.S. has — by far — the world’s largest defense budget, spending $948 billion last year. Its armed forces have 1.3 million personnel — some of them currently stationed in Greenland. Denmark, for its part, last year spent $9.9 billion, has only 17,000 soldiers, and most of its heavy land-warfare equipment has been donated to Ukraine.

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    There was a moment in the first Trump term where it looked like Europeans were starting to consider other options.

    Then Biden got elected so everything went back to normal, ie. the complete and utter sellout of their nations.

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      I find it absolutely surreal that Europeans didn’t understand that the first Trump term wasn’t a fluke. I guess that’s what happens when you reject material analysis.