Jan 16, 2026
For more than one hundred years, Europe’s security has rested on American power, American industry, and American sacrifice.
From the trenches of World War I, to the beaches of Normandy, to the Berlin Airlift, the Cold War, and today’s war in Ukraine, the United States has repeatedly crossed oceans to defend a continent that could not—or chose not to—defend itself.
This documentary explores why Europe can’t defend itself without America, and how a century of reliance has evolved into resentment, entitlement, and ultimately betrayal.
The story opens in January 2026, when European leaders issued a joint statement condemning the United States over its strategic interest in Greenland—despite Europe’s continued dependence on American troops, American nuclear deterrence, American logistics, and American taxpayers. That moment was not an isolated dispute. It was the culmination of a long historical pattern.
In this film, we examine:
How Europe mocked America before World War I, then begged for American intervention to survive
How Europe collapsed again in World War II and was saved by U.S. industry, Lend-Lease, and American blood
How the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe with American money
How NATO placed Europe under a permanent American security shield Why post-Cold War Europe dismantled its own military capabilities How the Ukraine war exposed Europe’s inability to produce ammunition and sustain modern warfare
Why the Greenland controversy reveals the deeper dysfunction at the heart of the transatlantic relationship
Using official military records, government archives, NATO data, and defense-spending statistics, this documentary shows that Europe’s problem is not a lack of wealth or technology—but a lack of political will.
Europe can defend itself.
The resources exist.
The threat is obvious.
What has been missing is the willingness to sacrifice—and the honesty to acknowledge who has been paying the price for a century.
This is the story of American sacrifice, European dependence, and a betrayal decades in the making.
