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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by Ididntdothis on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:20PM (#20345743)
" I think the system stayed in place after the war and without a threat of invasion, why wouldn't the Germans and other Western allies dial down the defense budget even more?"

I think it's time for Europe to grow up and stand on their own feet.

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Re:U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row (2018) by natechols on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:42PM (#20346004)
I don't necessarily disagree with this, but I can understand why Germany would be reluctant to significantly expand its military, and I can understand even better why the entire rest of Europe (especially, but not only, Russia) would prefer to have Germany protected by American nukes and not German nukes.
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