As someone who lives in Europe and has fulfilled, as any other fellow citizen my age my service: what are you on about?
Being dependant on Russian allies (what the US became) and their tech IP for protection is not bearable and IS the way to war against our interests, it has already started in Ukraine.
Independence and having a deterring army is what guarantees peace on our mainland and territories.
Tell me about it. Started resistance training to strengthen the shoulders, they started feeling weak, then the knees started to act up, stopped skipping leg days. 47 is a bummer physically (for the rest: I’m still 25 in my own head).