Better Burden Sharing With Allies

Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss several recent articles focused
on alliance burden sharing. Should America want Europe to be
dependent on it for Europe’s defense? Is the leverage the United
States obtains over European allies because of their dependence
worth the cost? Is it even possible for Europe to have collective
defense? Should the American public accept that U.S citizens will
have to defend Europe because European governments won’t defend
themselves? Will the United States inevitably be drawn into
intra-European fights?


Grievances toward the U.S. mission in Syria, the Biden
administration’s next Summit of Democracies, and Tik Tok. Attas
for Gen. Mark Milley, Israeli citizens protesting a judicial
reform proposal that lacks wide popular support, and to a group
of Ukrainians who have just completed training in Oklahoma on the
Patriot air defense system.


Episode Reading:


https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/better-burden-sharing-with-allies