there was no condition that forced you to spend well under 2% gdp on defense. in fact it was the opposite and you ignored it for three decades and threw a bitchfit whenever it was brought up. now your cupboards are bare and the bundeswehr is a shadow of it's former self. that is not because of some machivelian scheme by the us to make you dependent on us but by your own hubris that unification solved all your security problems forever. this is despite many different officials directly telling you different. > a pivot by europe away from the us. bruh, you remember when merkel got all buddy-buddy with putin? i do. how about those talks about an eu army? 'member those? we are already there and have been for over twenty years. that wasn't the us doing that. it was your politicians trying to subtly move away from the us in service of their independent europe experiment. but, sure, it is the us that has bad policy and is unreliable. it's all our fault. it always is.
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