It's amazing that countries like Denmark have their defense effectively subsidized by the american taxpayer as a result of some cold war inertia, and can pretend like Russia and Turkey don't exist and there isn't a war in Ukraine, and people like Krugman think that they're more successful societies with better government.<br><br>The world will go to shit as soon as the american taxpayer stops subsidizing world security. European countries must be forced to contribute. When they do they wont seem like utopian heavens but regular democratic countries making their way through history like the rest of us in eastern Europe who pay our fair share for defense.