No, you're the one gaslighting. It was not a few NATO nations throwing some resources, although, obviously, you deliberately chose this language to gaslight...
In reality, it was NATO nations responding to the US invoking Article 5, the only time it's been invoked in NATO's history. And in contrast to righteously throwing around empty words about Americans hypothetically coming to die for someone, these nations actually sent their troops, and some of them literally died for you.
> I said bring receipts and we can compare
Again, what are you going to compare against? WW2? The US did not enter WW2 as a favour to the other allies, you entered the war in response to Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile Hitler was dreaming of New York in flames. So your troops went to Europe to protect your own country. Sure you were fighting alongside the UK's forces but they were helping you to protect the US as much as you were helping them defeat Nazi Germany.
> Europe has not been meeting is spending targets as specified by the treaty.
Yeah, because recognizing USD as the world's reserve currency is suddenly not enough.
> I say article 5 is a complete non starter and should be utterly disregarded
Don't remember a lot of US people saying this when it was being invoked in 2001. Maybe you were saying it back then?
That said, it's not surprising at all. What do you call taking advantage of a friend and abandoning them afterwards? Another Friday?
In reality, it was NATO nations responding to the US invoking Article 5, the only time it's been invoked in NATO's history. And in contrast to righteously throwing around empty words about Americans hypothetically coming to die for someone, these nations actually sent their troops, and some of them literally died for you.
> I said bring receipts and we can compare
Again, what are you going to compare against? WW2? The US did not enter WW2 as a favour to the other allies, you entered the war in response to Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile Hitler was dreaming of New York in flames. So your troops went to Europe to protect your own country. Sure you were fighting alongside the UK's forces but they were helping you to protect the US as much as you were helping them defeat Nazi Germany.
> Europe has not been meeting is spending targets as specified by the treaty.
Yeah, because recognizing USD as the world's reserve currency is suddenly not enough.
> I say article 5 is a complete non starter and should be utterly disregarded
Don't remember a lot of US people saying this when it was being invoked in 2001. Maybe you were saying it back then?
That said, it's not surprising at all. What do you call taking advantage of a friend and abandoning them afterwards? Another Friday?