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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
You know skybird you really do give the impression that you like to look down your nose at the UK and the US, just an observation.
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I often got told that whenever I posted something critical on the US or it'S allies during the Iraq invasion 03.
On some things I do and on others I don't in the meaning of criticising other nations. Like I am also attacking Germany, or the EU, or France, on certain issues. But this willingness of British self-deception to think of Washington using London in a one-sided way as "special relationship", as well as America thinoling it can compensate for lacking economical power by mounting a mighty military that by American fiance power alone it cannot afford and must accept to let foreign powers indirectly pay for that, and by doing so accepting vital American vulnerabilities that cannot be tackled by military means at all - these two things are two isses that certainly do not gain any respect and admiration from me. You could as well demand me to applaud you if you continue to poke your eye with a pencil. washington sees Londown as a vasall - not ore than right that - like it wants to turn all NATO into ancillary troops to assist in the enforcing of American policies. NATO is dominated by the US - and without the US it is almost nothing. That tells something about how the US sees it - and it tells something about the overestimated vitality of the Europeans who would be both unable and unwilling to maintain NATO by themselves if the US would leave. The strength of the one is the weakness of the other, and vice versa. And if we are honest, we must admit: both sides do not want it to be any different. America wants European dependency on America, and Europe wants to leave the lion'S share of NATO maintenance to the US so that it must not invest any more than it does. I want to remind of the fact that Washington repeatedly has torpedoed any ideas and intiiaves by some NATO allies for bilateral internal European military cooperations and bi- or tri-military corps being formed, alwayxs trying to prevent them to function independant from NATO mstructures dominated by America), so that any new military structure remains under American surveillance and can serve as a potential resource to American military interests. And Europe has to admit: it allowed to get torpedoes like that all too willingly, not needing to make investements into such efforts that way.
With friendship or special elations all that has nothing to do at all. It is about one wanting to have vasalls, and the other willing to be the vasall. A pattern repated from older times.