This article examines the shift in US foreign policy from championing democracy to prioritizing economic dominance, highlighting the UK's vulnerability as a US vassal state.
There is much to admire about the US. The great French social observer Alexis de Tocqueville, nearly 200 years ago, lauded its commitment to civic virtue, individual self-improvement and hard work – legacies of its puritan founders. Those traits are still evident today, but alongside them a darker one has emerged. The US, the hegemon of the 20th century still committed to democracy, has changed.
It has transmuted into an imperial power careless of democracy but ever readier to exact economic tribute from its vassal states. No country has become more of a US vassal than the UK. This evolution is exposed in an eye-opening book,. Donald Trump’s impending inauguration, accompanied by threats of tariffs and the downgrading of its commitment to Nato unless its client states bend even more to its will, has shaken western capitals. But, as author Angus Hanton carefully documents, this is not something new; the US has been putting America first for decades. Trump is only turning up the dial on a longstanding phenomenon. Changing this demands more than appointing the: it is about recognising the extent of what is happening, then fighting fire with fire. It is time to put Britain first. Hanton writes that 25% of British GDP is made up of sales of 1,256 US multinationals operating in Britain. It includes everyday sectors – breakfast cereals, soft drinks, car manufacture, taxis, food delivery, online shopping, travel, coffee, social media, entertainment (Kellogg’s, Coca-Cola, Ford, Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon, Expedia, Starbucks, X, Netflix) – and knowledge-intensive sectors ranging from data (Apple, Meta/Facebook, Google, Microsoft) to finance (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock). As he reels off the statistics and extent of the exploitative dominance, your head spins. For this is not benign trade but a relationship of unequal power where the US profits at the expense of its allies
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