I know a lot of people here want to dump NATO, but I want Trump to maximize the leverage from it. If you want to do the numbers correctly, you have to look at what we spent/spend versus what we would have spent. The bulk of our spending still would have existed either way. In the early years, it was a little cheaper for us because the other countries contributed money to the effort that we didn’t have. Lately, we continue to have forward basing. If we didn’t have that, we would need a lot more very expensive bombers and tankers. So NATO has been a net savings for the US. My argument is that they could be a significantly larger savings for the US and they could handle some of the smaller challenges so we don’t have to.

Remember when Europe wanted to be a superpower that rivaled the US. 🤣🤣🤣

I know a lot of people here want to dump NATO, but I want Trump to maximize the leverage from it. If you want to do the numbers correctly, you have to look at what we spent/spend versus what we would have spent. The bulk of our spending still would have existed either way. In the early years, it was a little cheaper for us because the other countries contributed money to the effort that we didn’t have. Lately, we continue to have forward basing. If we didn’t have that, we would need a lot more very expensive bombers and tankers. So NATO has been a net savings for the US. My argument is that they could be a significantly larger savings for the US and they could handle some of the smaller challenges so we don’t have to.