Majorities have an unfavorable opinion of the U.S. in nearly every country surveyed. Tell me again why we're paying 75% of the cost for NATO for countries that despise us?

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[–]AirSeddit88 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The US pays 75% of NATO costs because NATO is 100% a US army of occupation "protecting" the occupied nations. NATO maintained the exorbitant privilege of the petrodollar by which the world has subsidized US living standards since WWII. That privilege, by the way, has been revoked by the BRICS nations. The US is about to discover what it means to be a third-world country.

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by which the world has subsidized US living standards since WWII.

Negative. It is the US which subsidized the rest of the world. Here's a great video that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIdUSqsz0Io