Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Europe standing without the U.S.

Trump and a former NATO boss.

Trump has consistently pushed our European allies over and over and over again. Foreign policy experts

warned that if he continued, the U.S. would lose its European allies and its status as a superpower

when that happened. Those buying into American exceptionalism and buying the lines of those peddling

nostalgia ignored the warnings.

Even as we saw European nations start distancing from our industrial base and talk about European-only nuclear umbrella agreements.

Even when France's president hinted heavily at pushing the U.S. out because it had become a weak liability.

We even saw Europe start working on fleshing out the details of the EU Mutual Defense Pact.

But Americans just leaned into normalcy bias and assumed the way things have been is the way they will be.

Even while we watch sign after sign pile up that the systems that made the U.S. a superpower

were being destroyed to satisfy the ego of one man.

Now we have another development that shows faith in the U.S. is crumbling even faster.

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Faux Rasmussen said,

What we are witnessing right now is the disintegration of NATO, and that is dangerous.

President Trump has raised so many doubts about his commitment to Article 5

and to the defense of Europe that there can be only one conclusion for Europeans. We must stand on

our own feet and be able to defend our continent ourselves. He went on to say that, quote,

neither the EU nor NATO are currently suited to strengthen a European pillar within the alliance.

He said a bunch of stuff about Europe needing its own industrial base and new defense plans.

He also outlined what he thought would work to build a European

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