'Strategic Clarity' and the Free-Rider Problem

It cannot be our government’s responsibility to care more about the security of another country than its own leaders do.

Elbridge Colby gets a bit carried away when talking about compelling Taiwan to do more for its own defense:

If Americans are going to be dying, you’re d@&) right everything should be on the table. One of the strangest Blob ideas is we shouldn’t press hard those who outsource their security to us. Huh? No Americans should be lost because we didn’t press o…