[jfman]

You can hardly describe Europe as neglecting it’s defence spending when it’s largely met commitments agreed what NATO and previous US administrations expected.

The difference now is Europe has an openly hostile US President trying to shake us down for more defence spending by evoking the Russian bogeyman. The reality is America - even the Trump administration - wouldn’t ditch the strategic benefits that it’s bases littered around Europe provides if they were genuinely under threat from a nefarious actor. Ukraine was an ally of convenience and thus disposable.

If Europe are to participate in the charade that military expenditure should be here. Not lining the pockets of the US military industrial complex.