https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjyjlkewr2o
Around thirty years ago, my National Guard battalion hosted about a dozen Bundeswehr soldiers during our Annual Training. The Pennsylvania Army National Guard (28th Division) had an exchange arrangement with the German Army.
Fifty or so years before that, the 28th Division fought the Wehrmacht in World War II. There was considerable grumbling from my battalion. One complaint was that these exchanges were not good because "we'll be fighting them again." I explained that the recently-reunited Germany was not a danger, but still an ally. Some believed me, some did not,
Eight decades after V-E Day, the world is different, primarily due to Donald Trump and MAGA Isolationists. He brazenly speaks about obtaining territory of NATO members by any option, has a close relationship with Russia, has abandoned Ukraine (blaming them for the war), and a shocked NATO faces a new reality.
I've heard it all. How European NATO members do not pay their way, etc. How we have our own needs in this country, and soon. And now I see how we willingly alienate allies and turn them away from us if not against us in some way.
Germany needs t increase its military. That will not be popular there, and budget cuts will have to be made. Berlin has no choice but to take these steps, and will have to maintain doing so for the foreseeable future, even post-Putin.
My books:
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Arthur-Turfa/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AArthur%2BTurfa
https://www.blurb.com/b/10799783-the-botleys-of-beaumont-county
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