gcomeau wrote:
Ummm... the bulk of NATO?
Please! Where was "the bulk of NATO" when US invaded Iraq in 2003?
And why US needed them against Iran? If any kind of actions would be launched, they would clearly be of limited scale. No one would try to launch something like invasion in Iran; it just make no sense.
So, strikes against airfields, command centers & nuclear facilities. US did not need Europeans for that.
gcomeau wrote:(I know Russia wants US relations with NATO undermined, another thing Trump is delivering on for Putin in spades)
The US-NATO relations are undermined by just plain common sense. While screaming "Russians are coming!" may be enjoyable activity for a while, it is pretty obvious that Russia have neither capabilities nor desire for any kind of large-scale conflict in Europe. And NATO is still an anti-Russia alliance, after all.