Typical ignorant American take.
First of all, nobody asked for the “security subsidies.” They were part of post-WWII arrangements hugely beneficial to the US, turbocharging your military-industrial complex and retroactively justifying NATO’s existence.
Second, one of the prerequisites for NATO membership was drastic reductions in military personnel and the forced replacement of operational Russian/European-made equipment with overpriced US hardware, financed through debt contracts settled in US Treasuries. We also devalued our own currencies to build dollar reserves for our banking systems, in some cases exceeding 30% of national GDP.
Third, we replaced home-grown food of real variety and quality with American-made slop that tastes like shit and makes people sick, courtesy of your “free trade” deals.
Fourth, go tell all of Eastern Europe that you insulated it from Russian influence. It’s alive and well today, 36 years after the collapse of the USSR.
Fifth, the welfare state and NGO ecosystem are another imported cancer. First dumped on Western Europe, which was already industrialized and didn’t need it, then imposed on Eastern Europe, where it ended up subsidizing the laziest ethnic groups at the expense of everyone else’s wages - wages so low that if you actually saw how low they are, you’d assume people in EE live on the streets.
So again: thanks for your hegemony benefits. Kindly take them back.
