The UK is not subordinate to the US. The US does not direct UK policy.
it relies on military protection from US
No, it doesn't. The UK has its own military, and it's own military-industrial complex. The UK is not at war. It's in a co-operative military alliance, so if someone like Russia came to invade, the US would assist.
can't have a sovereign and independent policy
The US does not give a shit about the UK's policy. The UK can do what it wants.
You're literally just making stuff up, this is like flat-earth level content.
The UK is not subordinate to the US. The US does not direct UK policy.
Absolutely adorable that you think this. US has very direct impact on UK policy and UK politics, and being part of US run NATO is the main reason UK is deeply involved in the war in Ukraine right now.
No, it doesn’t. The UK has its own military, and it’s own military-industrial complex. The UK is not at war. It’s in a co-operative military alliance, so if someone like Russia came to invade, the US would assist.
You need to do a massive mental leap to jump from that opinion piece, to "the UK is a vassal state of the US Empire". It's like you don't even read your own sources except the tiny bits that validate your insane worldview.
I love how you think that a single example I provided is all the evidence for US dominating UK policy that there is. It's like you have absolutely no clue regarding what's actually going on in geopolitics. Go read up on the "special relationship" US and UK have as another example.
It's absolutely hilarious how you keep talking about me having an insane world view here. Enjoy pretending that you live in a free and independent country I guess. 😂
Enjoy pretending that you live in a free and independent country I guess.
I live in the US, so what are you going on about? The US doesn't rank well globally in freedom (IE SCOTUS stripping away rights provided by RvW), but what do you mean by independent?
What is the US a vassal state to aliens? Because you smell suspiciously similar to the reptilians/adrenochrome/Jews/NWO conspiracy theories.
Ah, well you should've said you were American to start with, then I wouldn't be shocked by the stunning amount of ignorance on display. And what I mean by independent is a country that is able to make sovereign decisions in the interest of its people. I love how you have to explain the meanings of common words to Americans.
Like the wealthy capitalists who own practically everything in your country and who run your government. I guess in your fantasy world, a Princeton study analyzing decades of US policy is just a hair away from saying the exact same thing a Nazi would say.
Again, it's like you didn't read the article except the tiny bits that fit your confirmation bias. It's not saying that America is "not independent", it's not saying the oligarchs "control America". It's saying disproportionate wealth equals disproportionate power. Which should be obvious, no person should have too much wealth or too much power. That's why the US government was designed with checks and balances built in, which is not working as well as desired, but works farrr better than you see in a dictatorship like Russia.
There's no secret group controlling this big US Empire of vassal states. It's many many rich people of varying degrees of wealth (from the US or the UK or elsewhere) all fighting amongst themselves for more, and most of the time hurting the rest of us common folk in the process.