[cryptonector]

Between the end of WWII and now, Western Europe, and now Eastern as well, have enjoyed American defense and economic benefits. Europe almost as a monolithic whole has been fixated on a different economic model than the American model, but that's its own choice -- the U.S. did not impose its model on Europe.

> The US needs a framework for smaller nations where we can build better relations.

What could that be? We've had the U.N., NATO, the WTO, and what not.