NATO's essentially run by the United States.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.