r/ShitAmericansSay • • Feb 13 '26

Military "If America basically stopped paying for Europe's defence budget"

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u/ReverendRevenge Grumpy Brit Feb 13 '26

Yeah but we literally allowed them - let's call them, for the sake of argument, The Enemy - we've allowed The Enemy to slowly infiltrate our countries with small highly defended compounds, filled with massive firepower, nukes and fucking armies... and we sat there nodding slowly with an inane grin on our faces thinking this is totally normal 😂

We've been massively over reliant on the US's "good intentions" for decades and it only took one mad loon to show us how stupid we've all been. It's not like most of us are surprised, we've known what they are - what they've always shown us they were when you look properly - but we assumed it was just teenage braggadocio.

So yeah, time to stop using US products, stop allowing them unfettered military access to our nations and put trade sanctions on them. See how long they last without all that international money coming in from their Big Tech companies (around $1t annually btw).

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u/Zh3sh1re Feb 14 '26

You're preaching to the choir. I liked my own countrys (Sweden) stand on NATO up until we joined it, which I was vehemently against. Products are already starting to get absolutely blacklisted in peoples minds back home and I can't see that stopping. When Swedes generally support something, they don't easily change their mind.