It Is Time To Place Energy At The Heart Of The U.S.-Europe Security Relationship
It’s not only tanks and planes. It’s keeping those things in battle-ready order and keeping the troops trained which is the big-ticket item. You cant buy stuff and recruit soldiers and then stack them up like finished cars waiting for the showroom. They need to move, use the gear, get better, stay sharp. That’s what’s missing in Europe and frankly, considering where we are with it we won’t get it back any time soon. But if Europeans don’t assure their own protection, someone from the outside must do that and that cant come free forever. Decisions, decisions, …
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