If European countries increase their defense spending by 500% and the U.S. abandons its role as the world's peace broker and police presence, whose weapons are they going to buy? It occurs to me that this is a long range plan to have all the NATO members buy US tech and hardware to the tune of billions upon billions. This goal would explain why Trump has allowed Russia to present a credible threat to Europe and how effective American tech and hardware can be in Ukraine as real world examples.

This would inject trillions over the next decade. Maybe that is the goal. Destabilize Europe so we can sell them the military solution. We allow Putin to flex so he can be their problem.

Oddly, there are some problems with this. We have abandoned our allies and made Ukraine and the war crimes Russia committed there a tool in our scheme.

Ukraine has been hugely innovative and the weapons of war have changed dramatically. The US was looking to sell tanks, planes, armored personnel carriers and artillery in a new world where drones have replaced all of those.

China is now onto this game and makes a nimble adversary as they develop alternatives to American tech that is more modern and cheaper. In retail war, China would love a head to head competition.

Ukraine has made military AI the next frontier. This is really dangerous for everyone. American military AI will be a big money maker until the world catches up and improvises ours.

Let's see what Trump says at the NATO summit.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.