Europe is heavily subsidized by American security blanket. You guys get more out of the friendship than you realize and those two bit caricature type squabbles, I will excuse it as European snobbery.
LOL. There's no "security blanket" and no real security threats. The US and Europe are bigger security threats to the rest of the world than the inverse. You have to believe tons of propaganda to believe there's actually a danger to Western Europe or the US from outside. That's basically BS to justify control of key natural resources, trade routes, etc regions, like Iraq and the like.
The basic reason Europe doesn't say "fuck you" to the US is that for one, European and US elites are mostly working together, and second the US is a 100.000 pound gorilla, where Western European countries, post 1940 are not what they used to be. If France or the UK were the empires they were in the colonial times you'd see much more tension with the US to pursue their particular interests. But as it is, they are toothless, and it's an US world they have to live in.
There are three countries in Europe that, by themselves, have a larger GDP than Russia. The Soviet Union and Red Army are gone. As bellicose as Putin is, he is militarily bogged down in Ukraine. Europe has no need of a US "security blanket."
This is the same BS cold-war narratives in order to justify pressure on Russia, as if Russia will attempt to take over Europe or something, which is laughable. At least in the cold war era USSR was indeed more powerful, and had control over Eastern Europe.
The whole game is about replacing Russian leadership with some friendly Yeltsin like lackey figure, so foreign powers can pillage on Russian natural resources, contracts etc. They could not give a rats arse about "human rights" and the like, they just want to create the same devastation they created elsewhere already.
As if this were anything other than straw man argument: