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Because Poland wants all that in Poland, not Germany. Also the US has been drawing down from Germany for decades and has only about 35,000 troops left in Germany, but not for German protection, instead most of that is for US use in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. They're just using...

They spend their 2%, but 2% of their GDP is not what 2% of say France or Germany's would be and neither of those states are begging the US to build bases in their countries and forward station combat units there. So when I say drain I mean they want the US to spend more than Poland is...

Since Obama repaired those relations on his famous (or I'm sure you'd claim 'infamous') apology tour things were restored during this period and the 'Asian Pivot'. All of them. Them shirking on NATO payments and working more with Putin on energy among other things were a factor. Who cares...

Europeans and Asians. Corporate profits, not government ones; the US government paid the bill for Haliburton. Even before then. He funding his wars on borrowing while cutting taxes. 2008 just put it all into overdrive. Bush blocked the Republican bill to regulate Freddie and Fannie...

Nevertheless it is a weapon used in propaganda to some effect. Don't forget how badly it pissed off the rest of the world; I remember traveling abroad during that time and Americans were not treated all that well abroad. Really? All it did was bankrupt us and make us vulnerable to moves like...

I mean there is the entire Bush years and invading countries more blatantly for no reason (besides corporate profits and oil) than even Hitler marching into Poland. That did much more damage to our reputation and moral high ground (arguably the Balkan situation didn't help either) than modern...

Poland has also been angling for US bases in their country instead of Germany, so there is a good chance this was set up as a propaganda effort to get the US to forward deploy in their country. Besides the security benefits the financial ones are quite large. So they have an incentive to show...

Not exactly fair. France wasn't in a position to act unilaterally. She needed her full alliance system and Hitler had successfully peeled off Poland in 1934 while Britain was more interested in rehabilitating Germany and working her into the world system. Also it appears the British really...