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It sounds like you think there have been times the US has pushed real hard on some issue and a coalition of other countries have come together to tell it to go
by barry-cotter 5y ago
It sounds like you think there have been times the US has pushed real hard on some issue and a coalition of other countries have come together to tell it to go to hell. Given that NATO countries are so dependent on the US for expeditionary capability that when Sarkozy wanted to bomb Libya back into open air slave markets he had to get Hillary Clinton to ask Obama to do it this seems pretty weak. For an example from when there were Western powers that still aspired to an independent foreign policy one could look to the Suez Crisis. The UK and France pursue their interests and the US tells them to stop so they do.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe NATO countries are quite happy to be dependent on the U.S. because military capability is hella expensive. NATO can't even get their own military spending target to be taken seriously, and that's an order of magnitude lower than what the U.S. spends. If by "hegemony" you mean "the U.S. pays for everyone else's defense, and gets some amount of reciprocation (most likely worth a lot less than 20% of GDP, so hardly a fair trade!) in the form of favorable foreign policy from the countries it's paying for" then the U.S. is obviously a hegemon and no one among its "clients" is seeking to change that in the slightest.
- barry-cotter 5y agoDo you have any examples of a group of US client states coming together to tell it no on any issue the US pushed hard on?