Why is it dumb? Could you expand?
Because the person you've replied to has given a good argument and explained their way of thinking? What have you done?
What?! His comment is 100% opinion, with no supporting evidence. I guess that’s all hackernews needs, so long as it fits the Orange Man Bad narrative.
Then you certainly didn't headed Trump's threats to pull the US out of NATO.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/02/nato-donald-tr...
That's your high bar on Trump's reliability with regard to EU's vital interests.
I don't need to explain the sheer idiocy of complaining about the EU's... skeptical attitude towards the Trump administration in general, and Trump specifically.
> complained about the defence spending of European allies who committed less than the agreed 2% to defence, particularly Germany
The US wants the alliance, it’s the Europeans who feel they don’t need it (since they aren’t fulfilling their obligations).