Pentagon chief to push U.S. allies to ditch 'Cold War playbook'

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2. You have to understand what the "Cold War Playbook" he is referencing is.

What he means is the habit of depending on us to pay for their "defense", which entails them paying to be glassed or bombed to rubble the first thing in any war we gin up. He wants them to pay for it now, because we are not in a position to any more, having lost the many advantages we enjoyed after WWII through fecklessness and over-reaching.

The same people who claim Russia is going to collapse any day now also say it's an existential threat to Europe.

I don't think our enemies have to lift a finger to bring us down, our own government is doing the job through greed and corruption.