Saw this, clicked into the comments purely to check for bean involvement due to the mention of horse piss. Ring the crab bell. 🦀

Maybe that's the point I guess. But maybe the cost of raw military spending power is worth it if it's traded off against agility and the ability to act quickly and seize initiative.

Agreed. I feel that Trump's vision (excluding whatever leverage RU may have or may not have over him) is becoming less compatible with European security needs and a divergence from NATO looks increasingly likely if not inevitable. The current structure allows the US to paralyse EUR decision making.

Followed you here. You're my soft landing. Fuck Musk.