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The precise strategy of the China hawks including Biden admin is to extract concessions from Europe on China in return for US commitments to Europe. It may be cynical but if the contest with China is truly global and economic / technological, the move is to weaken Chinas growth and access to tech in Europe, force it to generate growth in developing markets + get NATO into Asia. US narrative of Russia trying to conqueror Europe is designed to push Europe to burden share more, not because intelligence indicates Russia has intentions to attack nato countries

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The republicans want Europe up do more not because they want to leave and not influence EU policy, they just want to do it cheaply to focus on China

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Excellent! One thing they could do to cool off Trump is to actually meet their commitments. I think America at-large is tired of always picking up the tab, especially when everyone else has no to little interest in barely pitching-in.

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NATO ie. EU is going to have to decide that defence development requires a single voice which it will never have their history precludes that!Perhaps the US needs to read about Kissinger diplomacy as well as building up their military and do a reality check!

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