This criticism may be correct on its own, but I would say it still unbalanced because it leaves out some relevant things. America has a lot of debt and a lot of

This criticism may be correct on its own, but I would say it still unbalanced because it leaves out some relevant things. America has a lot of debt and a lot of spending on social programs as well. There is debt everywhere - the federal government, states, cities, companies, and people. This will become a problem soon. It is propped up by the reserve currency status of the Dollar but that may go away before the end of this century or a lot sooner. Calling Europe a de facto US protectorate is also ignoring the fact that the US has a geographical advantage of being relatively separated from hostile world powers, which let it avoid most of the effects of the world wars - and that’s really pretty recent in historical terms. Is that really something America gets credit for, or is it just luck? Finally, the US had benefited a lot from immigration but the most vocal American voices that attack Europe seem to ignore this reality, and are also clamoring for a shutdown of programs like F1, H1B, etc. - despite half the biggest American companies being founded by immigrants or their children. If you glimpse into the future, is America any more “strategically serious” than Europe? Or is it just another has been that turns to racism and isolationism to deal with its problems?