The European self-reliance French President Emmanuel Macron is advocating should be encouraged and embraced—for the sake of Europe and the United States alike.
before he took office, so they cannot be fairly credited to this administration's policies.
Still, the truth that U.S. involvement in NATO needs a rethink is impossible to deny, for the alliance was founded in a markedly different security climate than the one in which we find ourselves today. By both military and economic measures, Europe is far stronger now than it was in the postwar years. Meanwhile, modern-day Russia is a, markedly weaker and more modest in its aims than the Soviet Union, which NATO was designed to rebuff.
"[P]resent-day Europe is more than capable of addressing today's threat, without American assistance or supervision," military historian and retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevichneed is a freer hand to conduct their own defense, which—as Macron's comments indicate—is likely to be more peaceful and less confrontational without U.S. involvement.
French President Emmanuel Macron is welcomed by German Secretary of Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer during the 2020 Munich Security Conference on February 15 in Munich.Indeed, the counterproductive effect of U.S. troops and dollars in Europe runs to the detriment of all involved: It gives our NATO allies a false sense of security, incentivizing reckless behavior and a neglect of practical diplomacy borne out of the expectation that Washington will always be on hand to help.
Applying American solutions to European problems is thus damaging across the board. It makes conflict—in the worst-case scenario, a NATO-Russia shooting war—more likely while disincentivizing productive diplomatic engagement. U.S. taxpayers are tasked with paying for European defense, yet this spending makes no one safer.
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