We should by all means assist our friends, the Eastern European countries still recovering from sixty years of Nazism and Communism.
When we talk about “the Europeans”, we should always remember that the eastern countries which used to be behind the Iron Curtain have a far more realistic world-view than the western Europeans do. After all, they have recent historical experience of tyranny.
If the now-despised Americans and British had not heroically intervened in Europe during World War II, it’s likely that the Red Army would just have bulldozed all the way to the Atlantic, and western European countries such as the Netherlands would also have spent the next 44 years as part of the Soviet Empire. But at least they wouldn’t be living in a dream world today.
