Trump's putting us ahead of Europeans: Democrats furious

Germany is a wealthy nation with a GDP of nearly $4 trillion.

Yet it refuses to put aside 2% of that to fund its own self defense.

Further it is trying hard to give Putin billions of dollars by making Germany dependent on Russian natural gas--which is really strange since everyone tells me Germany is getting rid of fossil fuels.

Clearly Germany doesn't care about defending itself so Donald Trump has decided to reduce the number of American soldiers in Germany by about 1/3.

Germany pays Russia billions of dollars a year for Energy, and we are supposed to protect Germany from Russia. What’s that all about? Also, Germany is very delinquent in their 2% fee to NATO. We are therefore moving some troops out of Germany!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2020

Germans are furious that the Trump dare require Germany to defend itself.

But they take hope in the fact that Democrats in Congress are also appalled that Trump should think that Germany should pay to defend Germany.

Germans are also very hopeful that Biden wins so that America will keep paying for the defense of Germany so that Germany doesn't have to.

A 2019 investigation by the German parliament showed that Germany was spending so little on its own defense that less than 50% of the Bundeswehr's tanks, ships and aircraft were combat ready at any given time.

Meanwhile the US accounts for 70% of NATO defense spending.  Given that the GDP of the European Union is $18.8 trillion and the US GDP is $21.4 trillion America is clearly subsidizing Europe.

In terms of percentages the US spends 3.4% of our GDP on defense and NATO countries average 1.55%, Germany spends only 1.3%.

The Europeans wave this away saying that the US is a global power. But the reality is that it's the US's global power that protects European interests around the world and pretending that isn't the case doesn't change reality.

We started subsidizing German defense in 1945 because the Soviet Union was a vicious imperialist superpower which openly said it had plans to conquer the world.

Hence paying to defend a devastated Germany made sense from a purely selfish perspective.  However now Germany is rich and Russia is poor--the Russian GDP is only $1.6 trillion or roughly 1/9 that of the EU-- and Russias imperialism seems limited to countries that it borders it makes no sense from an American centric perspective for you to pay taxes so that Germans don't.

It's obvious why the Germans want us to keep subsidizing their welfare state and their "green" energy programs but why do Democrats want your tax dollars going overseas to help foreigners?

The answer is that the Democrat party today is run by elites who don't really like America much.

The real problem with globalization isn't just that Americans lose jobs but that our leaders, administrators, college professors, media members identify more with their foreign counterparts than they do with their fellow Americans.

Democrats think they're better than we the people which is why they believe they should have the power to control every aspect of our lives from what our religious beliefs are to how much soda we can drink.

They tend to identify with the "elites" overseas who think the same way.

While they profess that they're the party of the little guy the policies of the Democrat party are tailored for the ultra rich, academics, government workers, and rich white people not plumbers, carpenters, car mechanics, and people who work at actually profitable businesses.

That's why when Trump's tax cuts dropped $1000 bonuses in the laps of many workers the Democrats said that that was nothing.  You have to be pretty rich to think that $1000 is nothing.

When you think about who to vote for in November remember that Democrats want you to pay to defend Germany when Germany isn't willing to pay to defend itself.