Matt Welch

And then look at the fine print of what he says when he's out and saying, my dear Donald, at the White House last week, saying, we just want we want to do that. And we're ready to even have our troops and boots on the ground, except, of course, not in combat areas. So that's exactly right. Some pretty French boots on the ground and now British boots, too. But we just want the U.S. solidarity.

We want a U.S. backstop. This is a French way of saying we want the U.S. to be the one doing the guarantees. Europeans. Germany, too. Germany is the worst. Frederick Merz, I mean, he's also talking about one of some of the strongest game right now. We need to declare independence for the United States. We need to create our own European security.

We want a U.S. backstop. This is a French way of saying we want the U.S. to be the one doing the guarantees. Europeans. Germany, too. Germany is the worst. Frederick Merz, I mean, he's also talking about one of some of the strongest game right now. We need to declare independence for the United States. We need to create our own European security.

We want a U.S. backstop. This is a French way of saying we want the U.S. to be the one doing the guarantees. Europeans. Germany, too. Germany is the worst. Frederick Merz, I mean, he's also talking about one of some of the strongest game right now. We need to declare independence for the United States. We need to create our own European security.

We need to spend five percent of GDP or whatever the number is. This is an acceleration towards that. Well, it might. The Germans have not done it. Of course not. No, no. You've never you've never gotten.

We need to spend five percent of GDP or whatever the number is. This is an acceleration towards that. Well, it might. The Germans have not done it. Of course not. No, no. You've never you've never gotten.

We need to spend five percent of GDP or whatever the number is. This is an acceleration towards that. Well, it might. The Germans have not done it. Of course not. No, no. You've never you've never gotten.

That's the problem. 80% or so of all of NATO actual warfighting capability is American. The munitions, certainly the leadership. And this is a really important part. Like NATO has been able, the Western European countries have been able to underfund NATO and benefit from their security without the burden of responsibility for NATO's decisions. Forever.

That's the problem. 80% or so of all of NATO actual warfighting capability is American. The munitions, certainly the leadership. And this is a really important part. Like NATO has been able, the Western European countries have been able to underfund NATO and benefit from their security without the burden of responsibility for NATO's decisions. Forever.

That's the problem. 80% or so of all of NATO actual warfighting capability is American. The munitions, certainly the leadership. And this is a really important part. Like NATO has been able, the Western European countries have been able to underfund NATO and benefit from their security without the burden of responsibility for NATO's decisions. Forever.

And so what Ukraine needs in order to survive, to make a ceasefire something different than just like a five years to wait before Russia pulverizes you again, is for someone to secure their their future, that someone should be Western Europe. Western Europe says they want that to happen, but they actually so far lack the balls to actually do that.

And so what Ukraine needs in order to survive, to make a ceasefire something different than just like a five years to wait before Russia pulverizes you again, is for someone to secure their their future, that someone should be Western Europe. Western Europe says they want that to happen, but they actually so far lack the balls to actually do that.

And so what Ukraine needs in order to survive, to make a ceasefire something different than just like a five years to wait before Russia pulverizes you again, is for someone to secure their their future, that someone should be Western Europe. Western Europe says they want that to happen, but they actually so far lack the balls to actually do that.

So everyone's dancing around each other in these negotiations trying to get over that fact. I think Donald Trump and I disagree with how he's done it and sort of the approach. I think he's accelerated towards that future, a future that needs to happen, which is that Western Europe has to put on its big boy pants.

So everyone's dancing around each other in these negotiations trying to get over that fact. I think Donald Trump and I disagree with how he's done it and sort of the approach. I think he's accelerated towards that future, a future that needs to happen, which is that Western Europe has to put on its big boy pants.

So everyone's dancing around each other in these negotiations trying to get over that fact. I think Donald Trump and I disagree with how he's done it and sort of the approach. I think he's accelerated towards that future, a future that needs to happen, which is that Western Europe has to put on its big boy pants.

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Unbelievable.