Erik Prince
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There's been a historic, long-term alliance as a democracy in the Middle East.
Is this a one-sided alliance?
There's a lot of tech that comes out of Israel that the US benefits from.
Pretty good Intel, I would say as well.
But I would say it's not a, well, look, what alliances America have that's actually equal?
NATO is not an alliance.
NATO is a protectorate.
When Trump took over, five of 28 countries were actually paying the 2% of their GDPs for defense.
Now it's up to 11 out of 28, but still not.
I mean, Germany, third largest economy in the world.
They're not anywhere close to paying 2% of their defense yet.
They're just not taking it seriously.
Norway, with a trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, it's right on their website.
You can see it ticking up in value.
They spend like 1.2%.
Why are we defending them?
No.
That's, again, I wrote a big article on a neocon foreign policy failure.
I'm all in favor of defending allies, but not protectorates.
Our tax dollars and our sons do not need to protect protectorates.