Erik Prince

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.