> As a Dutch citizen it's scary to watch our government and the rest of the EU go against it's own best interests. We are vassals of the USA and it would appear

> As a Dutch citizen it's scary to watch our government and the rest of the EU go against it's own best interests. We are vassals of the USA and it would appear our elites are completely captured. I'm in the EU too. I don't like US hegemony either, but what's the alternative? We are not strong enough alone to avoid being under the influence of either the USA, Russia, or China. We could tell the US to withdraw from Europe with all their military bases, but I don't know if you would prefer Russians in Holland or their influence over the US. This is the untold price we pay for security. If we want to change that, we would need to divert a lot of money from social security nets in the EU and allocate it to the military. Then we could achieve independence, but I don't see the political will for that in any country besides Poland at the moment (which will have the strongest military in the EU in a few years but is still under heavy US influence).