Pimps and Whores

The stale trans-Atlantic relationship is starting to show frays. It seems like Trump’s ‘America First’ policy is really all about ‘America over all.’

Adversaries and client states are being threatened with sanctions, tariffs and trade wars in an effort by the US regime to deal with economic troubles and record foreign trade deficits

European vassal states of the US are getting increasingly more angered by the US impositions of economic and political diktat, and are starting to talk about going on their own.

But doing so is proving difficult, and the EU has very little options to exercise.

But blaming the US for this development 70+ years in the making is not good enough. Western European countries have put themselves in this box by accepting whatever bribes, inducements, orders and demands that the US has thrown their way for decades.

What did these countries think? That the US gave them all this aid and protection out of the kindness of its black, rotten heart?

Absolutely not.

The US saw a golden opportunity to gain control a Europe weakened by the destruction of war to itself. It made promises left and right, and the desperate, tired Europeans bought it.

Did they think that the US military did all the fighting and killing during WW2 for free?

It started with the Marshall Plan, which was an aid program ran by the US after the war. Officially, it was designed to help Europe rebuild and get back on its feet.

But the real intention of the Marshall Plan aid was to subordinate and co-opt Western Europe.

In reality, Europe didn’t even need the Marshall Plan. It would’ve recovered on its own, and was already on its way when the Marshall Plan was announced.

Time went on, and the longer European countries like the UK, Germany and Italy, among others stayed in this US-created political, economic and military box, the less choices and sovereignty they had. They also became joined at the hip to such a degree that any separation will be painful and cause damage.

NATO was the first and most powerful means of exercising control over Europe. It was designed not simply to protect Western Europe from the ‘communist threat,’ it was designed to keep Europe under US military tutelage. This is something that European members of NATO must realize.

What also must be made clear is the type of relationship the US and Europe have had for the last 73 years.

This relationship can best be compared to that between a pimp and his whores.

Just like a pimp, the US protects its whores in return for their loyalty and payments. But it also feels that it can beat up on them, if they get out of line.

Now that the whores are trying to do their own thing, the US pimp is threatening them with an economic and financial slap-down; and the whores are scared.

But this is what one gets by blindly taking the side of someone for years without asking themselves, what’s the catch?

By kow-towing to the US for the past 73 years, Western European countries have gotten themselves into a bad predicament. Driven by US demands, they have already lost over a hundred billion dollars worth of trade with Russia due to the anti-Russian sanctions the US demanded that the EU pass.

Europe is now losing even more after the US regime withdrew from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran. It has threatened Europe with economic punishment, if it doesn’t follow suit.

Now the US regime is forcing Europe to buy energy from the US for two-three times the price, or else.

The US is conducting a mafia-style shakedown of Europe, and this would not be possible if European leaders after the war would’ve been more intelligent and courageous, and kept the US at arm’s length.

Now they are trapped in a box of their own making.

The entire NATO trans-Atlantic paradigm has gotten old and stale. It’s ran by a bunch of opportunistic, lazy officials who use this rickety creation to escape accountability and personal responsibility.

For example, Germany has been doing US bidding for decades in return for US military protection. This freed up a lot of money that Germany used for economic development, making it one of the most successful countries in Europe.

Other European governments have been doing the same. But now, the US is no longer willing to cover their defense tab, and in addition is demanding that Europe pay more tribute for US ‘protection’ than Europe is comfortable with. 


However, by forcing the European NATO member-states to cough up more money to cover the aging allianece's tab, the US is creating conditions where the European NATO members will want more say, and will want a place in the top leadership.


How will the US respond when this happens? It will most likely be quite bad. De-fanging a psychotic bully used to having their own way is very dangerous.

This growing rift between Europe and the US is a sign that Europe must end the ‘special relationship’ it has had with the US. Europe must finally go its own way.

Continuing to stay in this abusive, dependent relationship has already cost Europe serious losses, and these losses will only mount the longer it stays under the US boot.