It makes them stronger and then you can apply your energies to other matters.
On the other hand, it is reasonable to argue that the alternative has been tried for decades and didn't work. Moreover, since the stakes have gotten so much higher with China's ascendency, it is worth the risk.
When you keep on giving money to a friend to help them, they never learn to stand on their own feet. It creates a dependency not of true friendship, but of subservience.
How perfidious of them! Enlisting the US executive in their evil plans!
The conspiratorial thinking on display here is unreal.
It is being very naive and gullible not to see that.
Re. JD Vance, I think he actually hit the nail on the head and that's why the reactions from the EU and EU leaders were so strong to attack and discredit him.
We either get torn apart between the major powers or we become a major power ourself. To deny this simple fact is suicidal and I do not wish to be pulled to ruin with you.
In this case, claiming that giving up on our countries as sovereign states must happen to compete against China or the US is an obvious oxymoron and rather insane.
(I would also invite you to look up the meaning of the term oxymoron, because I do not see how it even fits the sentence here.)
saubeidl•2h ago