Given your own definition, they're not.

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unfortunately I agree

AMERICA is the reliable partner <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

though I will say

Not Europe

LOL

Certainly US doesn't have a perfect track record, but when one is THE hegemon, you have to make some compromises

fuck Ukraine

You seem to be making a lot of compromises for very little gain @leavethisbotnet

If any?

But muh russia power

and @Nathan James 123 lets not pretend Europe hadn't spent the 90s grifting off NATO

The compromise for no gain here is being the world police

Agreed, but that's changing @Sawyer42

which once again, I take your point and seriously

EU requirements are changing

yup

Militaries are modernizing

I know its super unpopular in the UK

Especially using European made equipment

but the EU needs a military of its own

Very @Sawyer42

Agreed.

but I think an EU military will mean the end of NATO

that's true, but some european states are imagining themselves as the counterweight to the US

Almost certainly.

not very neighborly

at the end of the day I think the world will be tri-polar in 20-30 years

That "unreliable ally" will be broken off.

IE, the EU will leave the USA.

there will be a US block, an EU block and a Chinese block

Yep @Sawyer42

Then there's the other category with places like France and Germany who don't maintain a real military and prefer to side against us. I do not consider them allies.

and we're seeing the end of the Bipolar & unipolar world right now

That's what happens when your "ally" is "unreliable" @leavethisbotnet

Good riddance to ya then

France has a "real military"

Germany, not so much.

@Jym The French Foreign Legion is nothing to shake a stick at

it deploys