> we have military bases in all of their countries and we control their national defense and their economic strategies, dude. it's just a more polite form of making them vassals.  they have their own economies, they are just our major trading partners they had major militaries until they exchange them for social welfare goodies  same with korea japan taiwan au nz and the philippines and some others i have forgotten  im okay with america going back to isolation and deporting everyone here
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