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The civilian head of NATO might well be a Belgian one year, a British the next, but the military commander is always an American, and by far the greatest firepower within NATO is American.
No matter what the treaty says, NATO’s Supreme Commander ultimately answers to Washington.

USA:

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

China has locked itself into the global economy. If we don’t buy, they don’t make. And if they don’t make there will be mass unemployment. If there is mass and long term unemployment, in an age when the Chinese are a people packed into urban areas, the inevitable social unrest could be - like everything else in modern China - on a scale hitherto unseen.