Not freeriding, it was a comfortable relationship for the most part where the US got an outsized influence over another continents internal and external affairs. The US got plenty out of that deal.
But it is a mistake the US alligned world has made to rely so heavily on the USA for so much defence infrastructure.
For years i thought the holdout behaviour of the French from defence, agriculture, to even the internet was admirable and sensible policy. I could never understand why people guffawed at the French’ more independently minded policies.
I really hope USA’s trumpstain has driven the point home now that US aligned Nations need to be more independent from the USA in many aspects of their national interest.
Not freeriding, it was a comfortable relationship for the most part where the US got an outsized influence over another continents internal and external affairs. The US got plenty out of that deal.
But it is a mistake the US alligned world has made to rely so heavily on the USA for so much defence infrastructure.
For years i thought the holdout behaviour of the French from defence, agriculture, to even the internet was admirable and sensible policy. I could never understand why people guffawed at the French’ more independently minded policies.
I really hope USA’s trumpstain has driven the point home now that US aligned Nations need to be more independent from the USA in many aspects of their national interest.