>>2486532"If you’re a man of means, and you are attracted to a young, strong, financially independent woman, how do you turn her into your mistress? The problem is her independence. Therefore, you need to make her dependent. There are two basic things she can spend her money on: luxuries and necessities. Thus you should lean into the strong male provider role and offer to take care of her basic necessities. But how to you prevent her from simply going back to providing for herself? You encourage her to spend her own money on luxuries. Get her addicted to buying any silly, frilly thing she wishes. And, since you can never get enough of what you don’t really need, she’ll be hooked.
What does this have to do with US-European relations? It is an analogy for America’s relationship with Europe. America has taken the protector role and has underwritten most of Europe’s security needs since World War II. Then, after the fall of Communism, America extended the remit of NATO and took more and more nations under its wing.
This has allowed Europe to adopt the feminine and passive role of America’s mistress, devoting huge amounts of her wealth to luxury policies—a burgeoning welfare state, green energy, and open borders—while allowing her martial traditions to atrophy.
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Why are we retreating to Fortress North America? Because there’s a dragon at loose in the world, a dragon that was fattened and unfettered by the United States out of folly and greed: China.
Given these new priorities, Trump sees Europe as a somewhat saggy, Botoxed, and incredibly expensive mistress who is past her prime and in urgent need of being dumped.
How does Trump dump a woman? He has some experience in these matters. He’s had three marriages, two divorces, and uncounted flings and mistresses.
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