Your choices are to not decouple from the US or have a comparable MIC as a collective. You don’t have a comparable MIC because the US does it for you. But if you’re against the Trump administration, you have to support getting one.
I won’t go as far to say Europe “can’t survive” without the US, but Europeans seem to think the transition away won’t significantly change things and that’s not realistic.
Your choices are to not decouple from the US or have a comparable MIC as a collective. You don’t have a comparable MIC because the US does it for you. But if you’re against the Trump administration, you have to support getting one.
I won’t go as far to say Europe “can’t survive” without the US, but Europeans seem to think the transition away won’t significantly change things and that’s not realistic.
Again, says who? I do not believe we need to have a comparable spending, when that spending is >20% of the GDP during times of “peace”.
I guess I’ll backpedal on “comparable,” but still bigger than you have.
My instinct is to be in favor of increased European military spending because in a saner world this would reduce US military spending, but I doubt it.