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Europe's been transitioning from imperial core to imperial periphery for quite a while now.
Really it's just another sign of the decline of the burgerreich, it's becoming increasingly difficult to exploit the global south so the burgerreich is having to turn to exploiting the shit out of Europe instead.
In the long term it won't save the US and if anything it will accelerate said decline as America will become even more isolated than previously.
Combine this with the fact that Capitalist Reformism in the United States is about as dead as the dinosaurs and you have a excellent recipe for complete collapse of the burgerreich.
Are Japan and South Korea also in the same boat? They seem even more occupied than Europe despite their global north status.
They're far worse off than Europe. They have almost no autonomy.
They have less autonomy than Europe but are not quite as thoroughly brainwashed. If the US is forced to pull out of Japan and South Korea I can see these countries flipping to China's side (at least South Korea...Japan may be too racist for that). If the US pulled out of Europe the EU would still willingly continue to act as loyal vassals.
I was thinking of it from the perspective that Europe still has, albeit worthless, an army. They have a some autonomy to do things the US doesn't agree with or doesn't support.
Japan had their constitution written by the US. SK's constitution states that in times of war, the military's command will be handed to the US.
Those are very blatant vassal traits. Economic exploitation is one thing, but the US would legally turn these countries into Ukraine when time comes
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