Source: Law & Liberty
by Doug Bandow
“Before heading for a special London summit earlier this year, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk noted ‘a paradox’ involving the continent’s security relationship with America: ‘500 million Europeans [are asking] 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians.’ His numbers were slightly off — it’s more like 600 million Europeans and 340 million Americans — but his conclusion, that Europe ‘must take greater responsibility for the continent’s security,’ was sound. The time is well past for burden-sharing, however. It is time for burden-shifting. NATO was created 76 years ago. Yet the Europeans remain seemingly haplessly and helplessly dependent on the US for their defense.” (11/20/25)