Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Good Times Bad Times"
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@CaptainAricDeron Trump urged the underperforming NATO partners to get their defense budgets up because of regional security threats, and the sentiment of Americans for decades of, "Why are we still paying hundreds of billions of dollars every year to do what Europe should really be doing for themselves?"
It's not a Trump thing. The past 8 Presidential campaigns from 1992-2020 have had either no foreign policy, or a policy of withdrawal. All have been domestic-focused.
In truth, many Eastern Euro nations were already ramping up defense spending, including Finland and Poland because they understand the reality of the threat.
Germany has let its military atrophy for decades, to the extent that it has hindered partner nations from enjoying long-overdue upgrades to things like the Typhoon. Typhoon should have had AESA 10 years ago. Kuwaitis have it, but every time they go to fund it, Germany backed down. UK has put billions into their Typhoon upgrade program, but CAPTOR-E was supposed to be a multinational affair with volume discount acquisition. That's just one example. The state of German armor, air transports, missiles, infantry, helicopters, and logistics have been neglected.
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Here's what Trump did to Russia:
Authorized the decimation of the Russian/Syrian battle group composed of 2 battalions, armor, artillery, engineers, and special forces, when they attacked US SOF and Kurdish forces over the Euphrates. 6 hours of JDAMs and Xcalibur were dropped on those Russians.
Throttled-up US shale oil extraction and distribution, which made the US energy independent for the first time since 1972, taking oil down to $40/barrel, and putting extreme strain on Russia's economy.
Sent Javelin ATGMs to Ukraine, along with training how to employ them.
The media claims about Trump being a stooge for Putin were to throw everyone off the fact that Putin paid over $340 million into Clinton Global Initiative so he could get Uranium One mining rights, which is treason committed by Obama, Hillary, and Biden WH/State Dept.
They had to get ahead of that story and accuse Trump of what they are guilty of.
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@marmac83 The idea of ethnolinguistic nation states emerged all over the world as the major empires decayed into history. We look back at the 1800s from a nation state perspective of the present, when that was a pretty rare thing at the time. British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, Danish, Russian, Swedish-Norwegian, Prussian, Ottoman-Turkish, Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian empires were the norm. Finland as a Grand Duchy was an interesting place, though not totally without precedent. The empires of course all had pockets of unique ethnolinguistic peoples, which formed the basis of the various nation states that emerged after the Great War and WWII, free from their dissolved empires, inspired by more modern experiments in government from which to yearn for their identities.
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