The US pays the NATO bills so it can control NATO. Nothing about this arrangement is based on generosity. European countries are vassal states of the American Empire.
Yup, Mearsheimer says the exact same thing - that although the US makes pro forma complaints about the matter, it really is quite happy with European states doing nothing on defense, because it makes us beholden to the empire.
You don't know how vassalage works. The lord is supposed to provide protection (i.e., pay the bills for defense) - in fact, all the bills the vassals themselves paid were funded with the revenues from the land granted to them in fief by the lord.
So this is actually exactly the relationship of vassalage, except for the fact that Europe did not receive Europe from the US.
It's the US tax payer that is paying. Both for the original equipment and the higher energy prices. The US doesn't collect export tariffs on LNG to the EU.
At least under feudalism, the tribute went straight to the king, so if he had to pay for some public works the tribute would be used. Here it goes to the jews running the Hedge funds and corporations. None of it makes it back to the US people.
However, those LNG terminals are employing thousands of six figure blue collar jobs, and they are not unionized, something rare in modern heavy industry. Without countries buying up all that LNG, those jobs wouldn't be possible.
The US pays the NATO bills so it can control NATO. Nothing about this arrangement is based on generosity. European countries are vassal states of the American Empire.
Yup, Mearsheimer says the exact same thing - that although the US makes pro forma complaints about the matter, it really is quite happy with European states doing nothing on defense, because it makes us beholden to the empire.
Yup. Trump making NATO states pay for their own defense was the most damaging thing that had ever been done to the American control of NATO.
Vassal States pay tribute to their overlords, not the other way around.
That happens via finance capital.
You don't know how vassalage works. The lord is supposed to provide protection (i.e., pay the bills for defense) - in fact, all the bills the vassals themselves paid were funded with the revenues from the land granted to them in fief by the lord.
So this is actually exactly the relationship of vassalage, except for the fact that Europe did not receive Europe from the US.
Back-to-back world war champs say "of course you didn't."
It's the US tax payer that is paying. Both for the original equipment and the higher energy prices. The US doesn't collect export tariffs on LNG to the EU.
At least under feudalism, the tribute went straight to the king, so if he had to pay for some public works the tribute would be used. Here it goes to the jews running the Hedge funds and corporations. None of it makes it back to the US people.
However, those LNG terminals are employing thousands of six figure blue collar jobs, and they are not unionized, something rare in modern heavy industry. Without countries buying up all that LNG, those jobs wouldn't be possible.