Comments by "jacq danieles" (@jacqdanieles) on "How Worried Is NATO about a U.S. Withdrawal? (Feat. Mark Rutte)" video.

 @RazorsharpLT nice analogy 😂
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@SV-tj7mm lame pro-kremlin defense. Russia has the 4th largest army in the world & the largest arsenal on the European landmass -- including the largest stockpile of NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Russia isn't an economic threat to Europe. It's a military threat. Hence NATO's importance in safeguarding Europe. Also, NATO has not annexed its neighbors' territories. Sorry your gaslighting attempt didn't fly.
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@Member_zero another thing that maga-not-my-tax-dollars fail to grasp is that by the US being the dominant force in NATO, US defense contractors are by default the main suppliers to NATO members. Just in airframes alone, firms like Lockheed are able to get a bigger slice of a captive market. Leaving or threatening to leave NATO will force the Europeans to develop & foster their own defense industries to the detriment of US ones. That will have multiple consequences: 1) more competition in global sales from EU contractors that will have become strengthened by their own captive market 2) lower margins & shrinking markets for US defense contractors 3) heavier burden on the US taxpayers to carry the load of R&D on cutting edge technologies & programs. Plus a smaller market means the loss of economies of scale. What would the F35 cost if they were only produced for the US Airforce? 4) potential for the need to downsize production due to loss of NATO member customers. For a billionaire businessman to not see the folly of antagonizing his customers is baffling. Sure he was within rights to pressure NATO members to contribute more to defense. But going about it in this manner really is shooting yourself in the foot.
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