ChickenOverlord
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Yeah, the only NATO allies that would contribute any significant amount of forces and materiel are Canada, the UK, and France, but even then they wouldn't contribute much compared to the US. There are some NATO militaries like the Finns that I expect would punch above their weight, but they're too small to contribute too much. The US would be doing the bulk of the fighting for NATO in WW3, unlike WW2 when the Brits carried their own weight.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I am not delegating my security to this child with a gun.
Europe was more than happy to do so for decades, and frankly still is given the pitiful increases in military size and weapons production since Russia invaded Ukraine.
My favorites are when, roughly a decade ago, Germany had less than 10 fully armed and operational fighter jets and ZERO operational submarines.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
China's recent rare earth policy suggests strongly otherwise.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
Additionally, the entire Mexican population of the territories ceded to the US after the Mexican-American War (i.e. California and most of the modern Southwest and Mountain West) was only about 100,000. They were offered US Citizenship under the terms of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and roughly 80,000 of them took the opportunity.
From watching way too many body cam videos, my biggest fear that would keep me being a cop is having to deal with nasty smelly hobos and druggies and their bodily fluids.
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