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Let me put it another way. Today, Europe keeps the things they have because the US chooses not to take them. If your happy with trusting the US to not take your countries resources for the next few hundred years, then by all means, keep doing what your doing.

If one day my country was worth 10 or 20 times what the US is worth, I would rather remove that option from the minds of the US leaders.

(you could replace the US with any country, they just happen to have the military power today).