{"id":116070,"date":"2026-04-07T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116070"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:45:10","slug":"116070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116070","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

John\u00a0 Konrad V<\/a><\/p>\n

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit?<\/p>\n

What if the real drag on the Republic isn\u2019t taxes, isn\u2019t debt, isn\u2019t even the deficit, it\u2019s Europe?<\/p>\n

What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel?<\/p>\n

What if \u201cburden sharing\u201d is the most expensive euphemism in the English language?<\/p>\n

What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks?<\/p>\n

What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that\u2019s costing us big?<\/p>\n

What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week?<\/p>\n

What if foreign aid to Europe isn\u2019t aid, it\u2019s tribute, flowing the wrong way?<\/p>\n

What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize?<\/p>\n

What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a \u201ccivil society\u201d conference and returned as lectures about our democracy?<\/p>\n

What if the UN isn\u2019t a parliament of man, it\u2019s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who\u2019d jail you for tweeting this?<\/p>\n

What if \u201cthe rules-based international order\u201d was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it?<\/p>\n

What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages?<\/p>\n

What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we\u2019ve let rot since the Cold War ended?<\/p>\n

What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying I believe all of it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn\u2019t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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