The Weak Lot Wakes Up

'They're a weak lot in Europe some of them...weak...feeble.'- Margaret Thatcher

The LA Times tells us that Europe is panicking:

Deeply alarmed at President Trump’s attacks on NATO and the transatlantic relationship, European governments are rethinking their reliance on the United States as a strategic ally against Russia, but they are unlikely to make regional security arrangements independent of Washington.

Europe lives under the umbrella of protection we provide and question the way we provide it.

But European allies bewildered by Trump’s seeming hostility for NATO must confront a sobering reality: They have few good alternatives for protecting themselves against Russia or other potential adversaries.

Europe is 'bewildered'. But, but, defence has always been provided by Les Americans...

Europe could try taking national defence commitments seriously.

Europe needs America far more than it ever realized.

What's European diplomacy accomplished the last century? Versailles? Munich?

So righteous about their soft power, only American intervention ended the Yugoslav crisis. How's European 'soft power' standing against Putin's tanks?

Europe congratulates itself for 70 years of peace, but forgets that peace was imposed by the United States and the Soviet Union and guaranteed by the United States after the Cold War. 

Now Russia is resurgent and Europe finds America not necessarily willing to fight for Frankfurt, liberate Liege, or die for Dusseldorf.