From the Article:
“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance replied. Hegseth agreed that “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” But, he added, “we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”
Miller, the Trump confidant, effectively ended the conversation by saying that the president had been clear. “Green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.”
Edit: The texts are released to public
Yea that’s another good point…and honestly if all our allies stop buying our shit, the military manufacturing here in the US is going to suffer heavily…wonder how happy they will be when the checks stop coming in.
They’ll probably just switch investments into private prisons…