yeah but so does a lot of the anti NATO and anti EU talk trump pushes and others push also. Helps Russia too.
Anything that disrupts the US at number one (or jostles that position a bit in bargaining etc) or western hegemony at large is good for our enemies.
Europe is guilty -- to an absurd degree -- of "jostling" their own position in the Western hegemony through excessive bargaining and compromises. The USA is right to criticize the EU and does so from a position of superior accomplishment and from a position of far more experience at running a union of states (sorry Holy Roman Empire). We are the result of some of Europe's brightest minds.
When Germany bargains with Russia for more gas and oil, isn't that "good for our enemies"? When EU leaders welcome in large volumes of islamic immigrants and then stunt their ability to properly assimilate into Western society, isn't that "good for our enemies"? As the EU dangles by a Brexit thread and nation-states bicker with one another, isn't that "good for our enemies"?
Everyone likes to blame the USA, but that's only because we hold the most influence and do the most. We are living through a modern marxist tantrum (hopefully the last big one), where educated social-engineers rage at the mean ol' USA for refusing to go along with the global scheme. NATO was made to protect European allies from the Soviet Union. It has allowed Europe to peacefully rebuild after you blew yourselves up twice in a 30-year span. Most of the international wars over the past 100 years are due to the breakup of the Ottoman empire and ownership under European lords (Britain and France, mostly) or the destabilization of former European colonies (Vietnam, almost every country in sub-saharan Africa). USA was happy to profit off the carnage, playing mercenary, chewing our cigar.
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We could also take that logic a few steps further and say that NATO and the EU are parasitic toward the US, and not putting skin in the game at remotely the same levels as the US; therefore they are weakening our position at #1 and are good for our enemies. It all depends on where you draw the line in that mode of logic.
