wake up, grow up, and stop pretending U.S. protection was ever free.

wake up, grow up, and stop pretending U.S. protection was ever free. It came with strings.

She’s not anti-American, she wants a strong bond with the U.S., but one built on respect, not dependence.

And she's done taking orders from foreign bosses.

"We outsourced our security to the U.S. for 80 years, pretending it was free. It wasn’t. The price was conditioning.

Freedom has a price, and we, unlike others, have never liked foreign interference, from anywhere.

We always preferred an expensive freedom to a very expensive but apparently convenient servitude.

We must strengthen our bond with the U.S., but in a dialogue between equals, not in a position of subordination.

Europe must finally build a NATO pillar equal in strength and dignity to the American one, able to speak with all the powers of the world."