Rubio doesn’t hold back.
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Dependency with an attitude problem.
The great fraud of the contemporary world…
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. In geopolitics, the vice is uglier still: entire governments now bite the hand that shields them.
That is the modern Western arrangement in one line: America is the wealthy, capable, relentlessly active grandfather who still pays the bills, still fixes the roof, still shows up when danger turns financial or physical, and still serves as the family’s emergency backstop. Europe, Britain and Australia are the adult children who mismanaged their own households, neglected their own responsibilities, and now spend their time lecturing the one relative still keeping the lights on.
That is not an alliance at its healthiest. It is a dependency with an attitude and accountability problem.
That is the real story behind the convulsions over Iran. The issue is not merely whether Donald Trump is abrasive or disliked in political-class diplomatic circles. He is. The deeper story is that too many ‘allied’ governments have become structurally dependent, strategically incapable, and morally evasive. Nato’s own Secretary General more or less admitted as much last week: European allies and Canada lifted defence spending by 20 per cent in 2025, but only after years of leaning shamelessly on American power. The United States still accounted for around 60 per cent of Nato defence spending in 2025. That is not a balanced alliance. It is a family of overgrown children still running tabs through grandad’s account while pretending they are financially independent. It is also a representation of a clear pattern. Continue reading The West’s parasite politics = the end of NATO
