Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hansen show. This is the Friday news roundup and we have a lot of news on the agenda today.

We're going to look at many international things, certain things going on in Europe and the first will be what's happening to the alliance between the United States and Europe.

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Welcome back and Victor. We have a lot on the agenda today and Europe is, Europe is always Europe doing as many strange things as the United States.

But we recently have a article by a MSN Phillips-Pason O'Brien is his name and he writes titled US and Europe are splitting over Ukraine.

And he says that there's currently occurring a decoupling of NATO which has always been the core of the alliance, the things that brought the United States and especially Europe together through the Cold War.

And he says the cause is and I'm going to quote here profound differences and outlook between the Republican Party's popular swing and the existential security concerns of much of Europe.

And I was wondering what your thoughts were on that.

It's ridiculous. I mean, if you look at all the A that we've given them and is committed it's somewhere between a hundred billion and 135 billion, it's more than Europe is given.

And suddenly with Donald Trump in the news and some of the Republican parties saying at some point given the quagmire and the stagnation there, what is the in game.

And so the Europeans being Europeans to the left of our left have now just gone paranoid and don't Trump this might come into power they might cut it off cut off the aid and never never did they say anything rationally they don't say okay let's take a deep breath.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden allowed Vladimir Putin to go in to the Donbass and Crimea with no ramifications whatsoever.

We know that because earlier he had said on a hot mic that give to Medepet you said tell Vladimir to give me some space. This is my last election.

And then I'll be flexible and missile defense and he looked weak with his red lines in Syria and invited the Russians in so Vladimir Putin invaded Obama did nothing Biden didn't nothing.

And so Trump comes along and he's pretty tough on the Russians, but he's sick and tired of the Europeans yelling at us when they won't defend themselves with a GDP of all of Europe that's about comparable to the United States and they won't meet their 2% they've only had about 6 of the 30 nations will meet their 2% of GDP expenditure on military for so he job bugs them and they get angry and he gets angry.

And then they spend $100 billion on munitions then he leaves office and Joe Biden comes in and Joe Biden says that there is a mine if it's a minor incident if he won't do anything if the Russians hack please put hospitals off the list he is humiliated in Afghanistan and guess why he invades.

Okay so now we're done and there are Republicans saying 500,000 people lowball estimate have been killed and what is the end game after a year and a half suddenly the Europeans say well you you're just don't want to look at the NATO let's look at it again that would be really good look at it again and say you know what we're tired of the Americans telling us what to do.

So we're going to spend 6% of GDP on our own NATO okay we'll partner with Americans but don't just you know not make a measly 2% and then yell at the Americans because they said after giving them over $100 billion they might want to reexamine where they're going with that and it's all about domestic American politics they cannot stand from and yet the person that they should be angry about is Joe Biden.

Because he was the weak one that allowed the Russians to go in and they never say hmm Ossetia, Georgia, 2008, Crimea, Donbass, 2014 the attack on Kiev, 2022.

Well what happened between 2017 and 2021? Oh that was when Donald Trump was president but we hate him because he's not helping us.

Well maybe he was helping them by killing Russian mercenaries and getting out of an asymmetrical missile deals and sanctioning oligarchs and sending them offensive javelin but they'd never say that.

So it's all rhetoric show time they really worried about Vladimir Putin when don't sell in natural gas which they have been making a lot of money off of these cases Germany and matches nuclear.

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