It is true that there are many powerful countries in Europe, but they have long lived under the umbrella of the United States. The United States has troops stationed in Europe, and the United States controls the political direction, economic lifeline and international relations of Europe to a large extent.
Why is Europe so developed and has many powerful countries, and it still needs the United States to protect it?
Although Europe is rich, it attaches importance to the enhancement and development of its industrial and scientific and technological strength, and to increase its economic strength by 100 percent, so that the country will become rich and the people will be strengthened, and they will live and work in peace and contentment. In order to develop, it is necessary to have the police to maintain the surrounding environment, and stability can promote effective development. Therefore, the United States is only a bodyguard of European countries who charges a certain amount of security protection fees.
The so-called protection of Europe by the United States is based on the confrontation between East and West formed after the Cold War after World War II. The Cold War took the form of a confrontation between the two camps, NATO, led by the United States, and the Warsaw Pact, which was dominated by the Soviet Union. The final result of the confrontation was the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the disintegration of the Soviet~United States. However, Russia, which inherited most of the strategic assets of the Soviet Union ~ Alliance, is still considered the biggest strategic threat to Europe and NATO. The US-led NATO has wooed the former Soviet countries and satellite states in Eastern Europe to join NATO and deploy anti-missile systems.
In fact, NATO's eastward expansion has not only not enhanced the sense of security of European countries, but has shortened the post-Cold War Europe
A hard-won period of strategic security. Now Europe has awakened to the formation of a strategic form of détente with Russia in order to promote their own development and strengthen the complementary and integrated development of the economy. Many European scholars believe that NATO is an outdated Cold War product that does not meet the needs of Europe's future development.
In the field of military security, the EU hopes to build an independent defense architecture, that is, the EU's defense autonomy and the construction of a European joint defense force, which the United States hates. The EU's defense autonomy is not only the most important part of the EU's integration strategy, but it will also greatly diminish the need for NATO's continued existence and future influence. It will also accelerate the further clarity of the trend of multipolarization in the world. Ultimately, the role of the United States in European affairs has been marginalized.
In order to continue to maintain its strategic influence and strategic dominance in Europe, the only way for the United States to remain acute is to make the contradictions between Europe and Russia sharpened. Demonizing ~ Russia and continuing NATO's eastward expansion strategy are the most effective tactics. The Ukraine crisis is the most successful case of the United States in recent times. The result is that both Europe, especially the countries of Eastern Europe, are afraid of Russia, and at the same time
It will also gradually integrate Ukraine into the NATO framework, thereby further compressing the strategic buffer zone between Russia and Europe.
The current chaos in Eastern Europe, which has been deliberately created by the United States, has made the European people feel that European countries must rely on the traditional and practical support of the United States to confront the security threat from the eastern military powers.
For various reasons, NATO member states have never wanted to be independent from the United States. In fact, the existence of the goose in their minds is the same as the existence of the Soviet Union, but a slightly smaller version - the Soviet Union, which is not as powerful as the Soviet Union, which is exactly the same. But the strength is still not to be underestimated, and it is still not something that they can cope with alone, and even NATO, without the United States, is not sure. So in the final analysis, in their minds, as long as the goose does not disappear one day, they will definitely not be independent from the United States. Because the threat of reality is real.