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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The aircraft carriers are meant to fit into US battle groups, but I wouldn't expect you to know that.

America is just weird in that the party which supposedly supports small government then supports spending billions on the military and police which support the power of the government.

The GOP establishment in DC is basically indistinguishable from the Democrats. D and R are just outward labels, they agree on just about everything. The small government people are outsiders who are getting constricted and crushed by ever-expanding regulations, which the GOP establishment couldn't care less about. But I wouldn't expect you to know that, either.

The UK barely pulls its weight.

But you do pull your weight. That's the important part. That means a lot. The rest of those worthless assholes in NATO can go fuck themselves. Americans are tired of wasting money on the ungrateful pricks of NATO, bases in Germany, etc. A complete waste of money that we can't afford, and which serves no purpose. If Russia wants to annex the Ukraine I don't care at all, not even a tiny bit.

https://www.ft.com/content/36f47240-7c0e-11e6-ae24-f193b105145e

Financial Times is a subscription-only site, but you pay for it so naturally it never occurs to you that everyone else doesn't. I would have expected you to know that, but I guess not. That speaks volumes about who you are and why you think the way you do. Freakin' FT.com, jesus.