[wongarsu]

It's surprisingly hard to find political leaders that are willing to stand up to the US and still have reasonable opinions on how to run a country.

[throwaway2048]

The USA works very hard to radicalize anti american factions within a country. If the choices are US backed dictator, or religious nutjob, its not much of a hard choice.

[happyscrappy]

Who are the dictators and religious nutjobs in power in Europe?

[LLWM]

Perhaps because it's pretty obvious that the US is a force for good in the world and only crazy people would deny that.