>NATO is only for stealing money
It does steal money, but NATO has a real geostrategic purpose and it's to consolidate Western countries under the US militarily.
Like you said,
>But when NATO wants to do anything, they ask our president if it's okay.
This is entirely distinct from the American-public-facing nonsense that is "we are supposed to look out for each other, but America pays too large a share. That's unfair!"
Basically all members of NATO are American vassals and the whole POINT is them not having militaries.
Perhaps the most obvious example is (western) Germany, but the others are functionally the same.
All functions and tasks of NATO are set to further US interests.
Therefore it's nonsense to claim "US carries NATO" like the quoted post.
>Virtually every EU country has expressed support for Ukraine joining the EU and NATO
which is the US SOI.
>are willing to pay 40% higher energy prices in support of that effort.
Tail wags dog. European countries are dependent on the US so they MUST accept it. The public messaging is cope to hide this fact.
The US blew up the pipeline after SANCTIONING every single corporation that worked on it for decades. European governments hid the evidence for the former and go along with the latter.
It's more than obvious what happens over there.
