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Originally posted by Nad Adam
To be honest, I think Europe today feels safer without US military bases.
This wasn't true a decade ago when we needed the nucular umbrella as much as the US needed a (sometimes more somtimes less) neutral distance to the russia. Thanks for a sucessful cooperation.
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You are probably right about that.
But, will it feel the same when/if Russia decides it's had enough of the "play nice" game? Or Germany decides that it's current strategy of teaming with the French to dominate the EU isn't working and they need/deserve more? How about if one (or a group) of the former Soviet states begins amassing troops and looking outside their own borders at the prosperity that they haven't quite been able to provide for themselves?
I wonder how quickly all the anti-American feelings will disappear when a real threat comes along. I further wonder how quickly that anti-American feeling will come back after that altercation is settled (assuming that there is an America left after the next war).