Jack of Harts

Why should a nation defend themselves? Well, for starters, because its a basic part of being a nation. Every nation should be able to summon the ability to defend itself from both foreign and domestic enemies. If for no other reason than to be proud of itself. Strength and the ability to defend those you love makes a people feel better about themselves. Also, if you can defend yourselves you are less dependent on the whims of others to survive. Finally, if you can defend yourself, you are a better ally to others.

Right now we are seeing our allies bellying up to the bar and looking at paying to build up their own internal defenses. That is a good thing. It will make them less vulnerable to the political mood swings of OUR nation if they can look at us, say whatever president we have at the time is an idiot, and just ignore him. Imagine how much harder Israel could have hit Hamas if they didn’t have to worry about Biden cutting weapons sales to them. Imagine Germany being able to shrug off the hit to their energy sector that happened when “somebody” blew up the pipeline they were buying gas from Russia with. Imagine Denmark being able to tell everybody, including the United States, to just eff off and get off their land, because they could shoot anybody who stepped a foot on their land without their permission.

All of those would be good things. We’ve tried a world over the last thirty years where America was the single ruler of The West and everybody else had to do what our Neocons thought was best. Look at where that has gotten us? The United States should not be the lone protector of the Free World. I don’t WANT us to be the lone protector of the Free World. NONE of us should want that. We SUCK at being the lone protector. But if there are many protectors, if there are many Western Nations that stand up in favor of Freedom, than Freedom will be more resilient to outside threats.

And there are many, many threats to Freedom. We’ve seen them in our own nations, and we’ve seen them in others. And all of us need to be able to defend all of us from those threats.