It’s not an unreasonable way to look at it, but I do think that each of those countries also have their own agenda and autonomy, which doesn’t always align with the US.
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Fun things on Twitter today:
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Clintonistas blaming Susan Sarandon for the attack on Syria, ignoring HRCs advocacy for the same thing.
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Clintonistas sneering at the ineffectiveness of the attack, and claiming that HRC would have done it better.
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CentreDem Russiagate obsessives claiming that Putin forced Trump to attack Syria.
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Every Democratic Congresscritter whining about formalities while supporting the attack.
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Yup.
OTOH, when those agendas conflict, it is usually the USA that gets its way.
It isn’t that different from historical empires. Rome had the fully assimilated imperial core, the conquered provinces (allowed to retain cultural identity but not political independence), semi-autonomous client states and independent-but-hegemonically-dominated “allies”.
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