TFLYTSNBN wrote:Why do Europeons feel entitled to denigrate American conservatives
Hold on a minute. I am not denigrating "american conservatives". I am denigrating "american conservatives
like you". Or "trumpets". Or "morons who think The Great Replacement is real". Or "People who voted for Trump". There probably are "american conservatives" out there who aren't any of these other things, who are perfectly decent people and rightly appalled by what passes for a conservative party in your country. Those, I don't have any issue with. I would assume that they are able to make coherent arguments about why the US government is too large, or why it is a good thing for the US to scale back its involvement in foreign affairs.
I do not expect
you to be able to make such arguments though, TFLY. Or the current crop of "conservative" talking heads and leaders. Important difference there.
moving on:
while simultaneously expecting American conservatives to maintain the American military that they presume should protect them from the Russians and other threats, real or imagined?
I expect the US to act in its own self-interest at all times. If the US wants to cut defence spending, great! Maybe you guys can finally stop giving tax cuts to people or corporations who don't need them with the money being saved. That would be good.
Militarily, I don't think we really need your protection. Russia isn't a
military threat; Unlike your President, the russian leadership has a good enough grasp of reality to know that they can't conquer Europe.
Russia is threatening on a different axis: They are very good at running destabilization operations. It would be great if you "american conservatives" could get your heads out of Trump's ass and stop supporting them in their efforts.
If you want America to be governed by screaming, liberal shitbrains such as Obama, then be preparred to be on your own if the SHTF because America will not have the capability to protect you.
Your grasp on reality is really quite tenuous, isn't it.
If you dont want America to protect you or dont believe that there is any threat that you need protection from, why should you care about a conservative American President contemplating withdrawal from NATO?
If such a President actually had good reasons rooted in some form of analysis of geopolitical realities that was on some level understandable and debatable (as in, something that can be debated and reasoned about), I'm sure the situation would be quite a bit different.
But since the President who's doing the withdrawing is doing so because he is incapable of understanding international relationships, well....