You do it for...free? OMG, you can't actually believe that? I live in the UK. We have an independent nuclear deterrent that we buy off the US for billions. W

You do it for...free? OMG, you can't actually believe that? I live in the UK. We have an independent nuclear deterrent that we buy off the US for billions. We have plastic fighter jets we buy from the US at over $100m a pop. We have every credit card payment taxed by Visa and Mastercard. We allow US companies to operate here tax free, destroying local business. When I was a teenager in the 1990s we finally managed to pay the US for selling us WW2. The US took our gold and the rights built military bases on a bunch of strategic islands. They left us as a vassal state. The US base their front line in the UK against Russia so we get wiped out first. We are a buffer zone for the US defence of itself against Russia. The US protects Europe 'for free' in the same way that the UK 'protected' India 'for free'. Your (rather common) attitude will be the eventual downfall of the US empire. Every time the US acts as the world's arsehole (like by electing a protectionist moron as president) it loses legitimaticy. You also find Europe starts buying gas from Russia and turning a blind eye to its military adventures. When it starts looking bad for the US they turn up like 'Team America', blow up our gas connections to Russia and magically find cheap gas to sell us instead.