The US needs to formally withdraw from NATO and move its Europe-based forces back to the US except for our naval bases in the Mediterranean. Europe is under no military threat from anyone. It’s time we made them assume 100% of the costs of their national defenses. Heck, it would actually be good for them because having primary responsibility for their defense would cripple their welfare state culture. As for our “allies” in the Middle East, they’ve contracted out to buy about $100 billion worth of new hardware and training, the vast majority of which is American-made. They’re being responsible and putting their oil dollars into protecting themselves in a serious way now.
That’s what we need to encourage. The US has a military industrial complex capable of putting equipment into our allies hands that would give their enemies a preview of the wrath of God if unleashed on them. We should be offering to sell top of the line naval hardware to our asian allies as we draw down as well.
