Originally Posted by
ORAC
You have the luxury, at a distance, of just being concerned.
I sit here, being of the boomer generation born after the end of WWII and hoping to be the first in centuries not to face being involved in an existential war, facing the imminent risk of another - triggered by chance or happenstance - and with politicians who seem blind or paralysed to the threat and making no effort to prepare against the possibility.
Which in my view is what the Trump Administration has been urging the other NATO members to pay attention to and take very seriously, not just recently but in his first term also.
Rather than respond and actually do something several European Leaders and Politicians went out a criticized Trump for meddling in European affairs and creating an imbalance to their carefully constructed status quo.