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European arrogance treats NATO as a one-way partnership

President Donald Trump recently announced that he was reducing the US military presence in Germany by at least 5,000 troops, with plans to “cut way down” the 70,000 active-duty military personnel in Europe.

The move came after Western European nations brusquely rejected Trump’s request for help in securing the Strait of Hormuz when the Iranian regime threatened it.

Both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the media that the US conflict with Iran wasn’t “our war.”

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz added that the United States, which has demolished much of Iran’s military capabilities and economy, was being “humiliated” by the clerics.

NATO was conceived as an intergovernmental military alliance meant to thwart Soviet ambitions.

It now has 30 member countries, all of them reliant on the United States for their defense.

Rubio voices support for NATO in Italy amid alliance tensions with Trump

Michael Goodwin: The British ambassador was right —the ‘special relationship’ is in tatters

Osama bin Laden’s killer reveals the one mission he wishes he was on

Need it be said that if the United States hadn’t taken responsibility for the protection of Western Europe after World War II, the continent would have likely descended into yet another bloodbath — as had been the case every few decades stretching back........

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