r/europe • u/A_Lazko • Mar 16 '25

Data Guess who claims all the credits

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u/MeggaMortY Mar 16 '25

The point is comparing a bunch of countries to a bunch of states. You can slice it however you want, the US is an entity and EU/Europe sure is one as well.

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u/BadPunsGuy Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

States are more equivalent to regions or even provinces in some ways. They are not countries; especially concerning something like military aid.

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u/MeggaMortY Mar 16 '25

You can spin it that way, but in reality it's very comparable to mini-countries under shared law.

The EU, while not completely the same, is close to a governing body for it's members as well.

You only want to portray the US as one country because it makes it look oh so amazing compared to say 30 other countries in Europe. That's just playing on semantics. US aid comes from a joint source, EU aid comes as a joint effort as well.

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u/tpamm86 Mar 16 '25

Many of those European countries (specifically in Western Europe) don’t even spend 2% of their gdp on military spending like they agreed to do in nato. I can’t stand Trump but expecting those countries to uphold their end of the treaty is a reasonable. The Eastern European nato countries actually do (with Russia being right there and all).