In a stunning speech delivered in Munich, US Vice-president JD Vance told the audience that Europe had become undemocratic, owing largely to its suppression of populist parties, of free speech.
As someone who has been living in Europe for the better part of the past 2 decades, I can safely say that I don't think one single American penny should be spent on Europe's defense. My reasons for agreeing with Mr. Vance are not particularly owing to European suppression of free political organization or "open borders."
It is no secret that Europe's wealth was built upon the backs of enslaved and colonized peoples on our very own American continent, with the US being forced to implement the Monroe Doctrine in order to keep predatory European powers from further brutalizing Latin America. It is also no secret that the Europeans themselves destroyed the wealth they had stolen from our continent with the two World Wars that they started and dragged us into.
After the Europeans destroyed what they had stolen, it was America's Marshall Plan that kept the Bolsheviks at bay and helped Europe rebuild the wealth that allowed it to keep the Soviet Union at bay.
Without America, Europe today would be nothing more than a backwater continent, with most of its large urban centers decaying in poverty and misery. Without America, Europe would be nothing more than a Soviet satellite. Instead, it is American urban centers that are in disarray, with our tax dollars going to fund Europe's strategic defense.
To keep Europe from sliding back into the barbarism that characterized it during the Middle Ages and most of its history, the American people have spent blood and steel; and what do we have to show for it?
The American people have nothing to show for keeping Europe from de-evolving towards savagery. It's the opposite, European leaders have constantly demonstrated snobbery instead of deference, treating us as a rabid dog whose protection they feel entitled to, instead of acknowledging the truths I have established previously: without the United States, there would be no modern Europe.
