News analysis: The Independent’s political editor David Maddox’s trip to Washington DC for Trump’s inauguration found that the UK/US special relationship has morphed into deep antipathy for the Starmer government from the new White House administration
that would have a lot more pull if europe didn’t benefit so much from the existing world order. the same reasons people give for why the us proletariat won’t commit to revolutionary change apply to europe (specifically western/northern europe) with regards to their relationship with the us. nato goading and cia color revolutioning to incite the russian smo has been used by the capital class on both sides of the atlantic to great effect in reaffirming this.
Plus, the US does all of Europe’s dirty work in the global south. Oil from the US invasion of Iraq wasn’t going to the US, it was going to Europe. Opiates from Afghanistan mostly went to Europe to stock their hospitals.
Europeans don’t maintain large militaries because they don’t have to. The US does all the adventurism on their behalf.