"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Hardly. The Canadians and Europeans depend on the US for their security.
They provide token forces, but nothing anywhere near what they would
have
to
do if they were fully responsible for their own security.

Which is precisely by design, and is precisely the way we wanted it to be.

You want a heavily armed Canadian military on our northern border? You
want
a militarized Europe again? Probably not.


No, of course not. However, neither should they be so disrespectful of what
we have bought for them at such a high price.