US military complex is like a hydra, in my home country we are paying for the second time for f16 fighter jets, which are not existent at all.
We are the poorest EU country, with record high mortality, with corrupt government coming one after another in the last 20 years.
We have more than 400 million dollars given to our local media outlets and NGO's, for the period of 2009-2021 by foundation which is named "America for <insert my home country name>".
My country joined NATO without any form of referendum. The list is long. And we are not alone. Europe will form a real defence Alliance in which we can have some form of control, instead of being colonial outlets for American interests in the region.
On f16: Bulgarian Defence Minister: 34 million dollars in Compensation have been agreed due to the Delay of F-16.
https://www.novinite.com/articles/216065/Bulgarian+Defense+M...
America's foundation data reports: https://us4bg.org/about-abf/annual-report/
If you find "a comfort" in the fact that your home country has sold weapons to all those conflicts, I rest my case.
In the meantime living standards of the regular people are in record low, mortality is in record high, education is broken, agriculture is non-existent, the army is weak, healthcare is rotten and there is not one politician prosecuted for corruption for 30 years.
What I think you don’t realize is that most normal Americans aren’t interested in providing military protection to countries that don’t want it. I’d suspect whatever country you’re in realizes that, and is willing to accept whatever pressure from the Americans in exchange for the support of the world’s largest military.