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Originally Posted by mrnyc
so it's guns over trains for now.
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Trump may be a strange man upsetting us all, I think he wasn't wrong when he said the US was paying too much for others' defense.
$600 billion a year. That would be the annual military budget of the US to protect us all. To be fair, that's unfair. If I was an American taxpayer, I'd be pissed too.
The US needs more "soft power", and the Europeans need more military expense to share the burden and develop our related industry further.
My country pays roughly €34 billion a year. More than any other EU member, except maybe for the UK that acts responsible in that matter too.
The real scandal is Germany here. I said it already on here. They must help us for our common defense. They always claim to teach us Frenchies about seriously managing a public budget, but they do nothing much to defend themselves against the threats on us all, always relying on others (especially the US, of course). That's no fair attitude from them.