Europe wants America to fund the Ukraine war indefinitely, which costs us hundreds of billions of dollars while offering us no benefit.
But now that Trump has proposed a peace deal that would end the fighting, and be maintained by stationing European but not U.S. troops along the ceasefire line. Naturally, countries like Germany, that have howled about Putin being the next Hitler who must be stopped at all costs, are now flinching from the idea of doing anything themselves to keep the peace.
This is a continent of freeloaders.
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