Frau Merkel is Right

Via the Telegraph:

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has indicated Europe can no longer completely rely on its American and British allies in the wake of Brexit and the election of US President Donald Trump, declaring the continent's destiny is in "our own hands".

Of course America and Britain twice allied to fight the Hun, and later agreed that the Hun must be kept down, hence NATO.

Frankly, we're delighted by Frau Merkel's declaration and amused by the idea that a lot of Continentals are going to suddenly rediscover the military arts and defend themselves. Putin must be laughing his ass off.

Of course during the Cold War the United States kept an army of a quarter of a million men in Germany while the British had their own Army of the Rhine. West Germany contributed ten armored and mech divisions to their own defense. Today the Krauts field two panzer divisions and something called a Rapid Forces Division, because we all know that when there's trouble German Euro-weenies are the first on the ground.

Why just look at the krauts in Afghanistan:

[German troops] drink too much and they're too fat to fight, that's the damning conclusion of German parliamentary reports into the country's 3,500 troops stationed in Afghanistan.
While British and U.S. troops in the country face a strict ban on alcohol, their German comrades are allowed two pints a day.
The stunning statistics reveal that in 2007 German forces in northern Afghanistan drank 1.7 million pints of beer and 90,000 bottles of wine.

Not long after 9/11 many of us noticed that the English speaking peoples were doing the heavy lifting. American troops went into Afghanistan of course, but also Brits, Canadians, Australians etc. This was typical going back to the Great War. This alliance of the English Speaking Peoples was simply part of the landscape and not even worth mentioning, The alliance was so typical as to be unremarkable.

Of course we kept fighting against bad ideas that originated with the Germans.

So good luck Frau Merkel. Two Panzer divisions, eh? Not only can't you stop a Russian invasion, you can't even stop a Polish invasion.