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Well, if it helps, plenty of us Europeans don't think of the US as allies anymore. The current administration has made it quite clear.

The only hope is that the next administration will be a bit less eager to cut ties with all its allies and might fix some of the self-inflicted damage.

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The only actual hope is a common European defence policy (and industry) independent of NATO. The day Germany agrees to it, the dominos might fall, and the USA might realise what it has lost.

Germany where 20% of the population currently votes for AfD? I don't think they should get to have an army until they can figure out how not to use it for evil. They should have a lot of defence treaties and pay for them, though.

Germany, where 80% of the population does not vote for the AfD :)

After that maybe we can cut our defense spending so we aren't covering for a bunch of other countries.

Maybe you can, indeed.

I mean, the US was paying for the ability to project both force and influence all over the world. Clearly, the US isn't willing to pay for either thing at the moment.

What the United States has just demonstrated is that it's idiotic to rely on them for anything fundamentally vital when its government can drastically and dramatically go manic/bi-polar ever 4 years

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