News analysis: The Independent’s political editor David Maddox’s trip to Washington DC for Trump’s inauguration found that the UK/US special relationship has morphed into deep antipathy for the Starmer government from the new White House administration
The discipline gets turned up another notch. USA vs the world, you’re either in the axis aligned with the USA or you’re a target
The Euros are eventually going to get tired of being treated like dogs by Yanks and are going to start looking wistfully in China’s direction, right?
…right?
Yes, they will. But the USA has them completely subjugated:
After WW2 destroyed much of European production, the USA integrated themselves into the European economies completely. Europe cannot survive economically with the USA without massive economic upheaval
The USA has the army of the Fourth Reich already occupying all of Europe. NATO is a scam. It is a transnational nuclear military without any democratic accountability. It is controlled entirely by the USA in practice and everyone knows that. And it’s entire culture was built by Nazis, because the US staffed it with Third Reich officers up to the highest levels of command. NATO is stationed in nearly every country in Europe, and can be activated by the USA at any time along with USA bases. No need for an invading army when they already occupy a portion of the country complete with all defense modalities, fully operational logistics networks, every form of intelligence, etc. Any European country that gets out of line can be destroyed violently.
The USA through NATO spent decades building neo-nazi militias, training and arming them, setting up clandestine logistics and intelligence networks, and ensuring they are ready when they need them to be. Any belief that this was a thing of the past is shattered when we look at Azov. Any European country looking to break from the bloc is going to be staring down the possibility of neo-nazi gangs activating. We already see far-right political group gaining power as a precursor to this.
In essence, what the Third Reich tried to do by forcing it on every country they invaded, the USA has achieved through diplomacy and has done so completely and thoroughly. Without having to invade anyone, the USA has established a formal, informal, and economic occupation of Europe.
So even if Europeans started to look wistfully to China, it will take years of bloodshed for even the smallest portions of Europe to realign. And it will likely only be possible for those European countries directly bordering Russia and China because they will need significant support to pull it off.
that would have a lot more pull if europe didn’t benefit so much from the existing world order. the same reasons people give for why the us proletariat won’t commit to revolutionary change apply to europe (specifically western/northern europe) with regards to their relationship with the us. nato goading and cia color revolutioning to incite the russian smo has been used by the capital class on both sides of the atlantic to great effect in reaffirming this.
Plus, the US does all of Europe’s dirty work in the global south. Oil from the US invasion of Iraq wasn’t going to the US, it was going to Europe. Opiates from Afghanistan mostly went to Europe to stock their hospitals.
Europeans don’t maintain large militaries because they don’t have to. The US does all the adventurism on their behalf.