Exposing the USA hating among the leftists is enlightening. The US liberated "Europe" from the Nazis. The US has paid for the national defense of "Europe" for 70 years and counting. In return, "Europe" has imposed tariffs on the US and charged the US for the privilege of defending them. Now they are crying a river about tariffs. LOL. It's butt hurting time for the socialists who have stolen America blind. They have built their entire fake economies around the US paying for their socialist utopia. That is now ending.
Such a stinging rebuttal as it is so full of specifics. What are you taking issue with? That the US played a significant role in liberating "Europe" during WWII? That the US has paid for the defense of "Europe" since the end of WWII? That "Europe" imposes tariffs on US imports while charging us for the privilege of having bases to defend them"? That many such countries are dependent on US money? Do tell.
The US liberated "Europe" from the Nazis. That the US played a significant role in liberating "Europe" during WWII? You do understand that there is a massive difference between these two statements, right? Why are you being so dishonest.
Yes, the US played a part in liberating Europe during WWII, but they most certainly didn't do it alone. The Russians were earlier in Berlin then the Allied Forces!
The US has paid for the national defense of "Europe" for 70 years and counting. That the US has paid for the defense of "Europe" since the end of WWII?No it hasn't. The US was in a cold war with Russia and needed bases in Europe to place their nuclear weapons. There were and still are US army bases in Europe.
Obviously, if you are going to put a continent in harm's way by placing nuclear weapons there, you're not only have to pay for it but also defend those countries.
Trump wants Greenland for his own purposes and not to defend them and the same applied and still applies to Europe.
Just like Ascension Island in the middle of the Atlantic and Midway in the middle of the Pacific, there is also an American base in the Sierra Tramuntana of the island Mallorca which is used for monitoring ship movements and radio traffic in the Mediterranean. They are not there to "defend" the island or Spain. Europe is the US's first line of defense. It is as simple as that!
That "Europe" imposes tariffs on US imports while charging us for the privilege of having bases to defend them"? Did you expect Europe to pay the US for putting it in harm's way? Do you actually believe that Castro paid the Russians for placing nuclear weapons on Cuba as they tried and failed to do in 1962?