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
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.