Yeah, it’s one of those ideas that is much less appetizing when it’s in your front yard as opposed to in someone else’s front yard 2000 miles away
That and the US has been completely obvious about how thirsty it is for this conflict, and the last time the US security state got really thirsty for war, it went quite poorly.
Oh sure, but that happened with Iraq too; there was barely any pretense, and the US invaded them like 2 years after Dick Cheney announced Iraq was part of the new “Axis of Evil”.
I’m surprised any of Europe is pushing back to be honest
They’ve had two decades of the US demonstrating that you can’t trust them when they get horny for war. That’s a pretty good lesson even before they start thinking about what it means if the war is actually on the continent.
