US vs. The World

The global arms race expands to include a trans-Atlantic fissure

As Trump leads the world into its might-makes-right, every-strongman-for-himself future, the U.S. and Europe are scrambling simultaneously to build the armaments needed to take on the rest of the world single-handedly.

Trump, as regular readers will recall, has called for a 50% increase in the record, $901 billion annual U.S. military budget. He has als…