vassalage

The biggest disgrace is the vassalage to the US in terms of defense, which fuels the US MIC.

US-style economic and military cooperation, or vassalage, gives similar benefits without the hassles of maintaining physical colonization.

Peasants did not have fiefs, they did not enter into vassalage agreements (the feodum of feudalism).

Based on the carveouts within the Industrial Acceleration Act, the EU has chosen American vassalage.

However the last point, vassalage involving military service, is both absolutely central to feudalism and entirely lacking in the present-day cybersecurity situation.

But not enough to bother doing the sustained hard work needed escape from vassalage.

EU are reliable vassals, but they're reliable in the sense that their vassalage doesn't add much to strategic balance, especially vs PRC.

Germans would gladly choose vassalage instead of restarting and expanding conscription, investing in industrial subsidizes, and adopting a hard power foreign policy strategy.

If the EU views Russia as a threat, it will have to accept American vassalage becuase the PRC will continue to back Russia [1].

The vassalage and chains were replaced by laws and religious dogma.

That infamous treaty has turned the Special Relationship into full-on vassalage.

Muscovy became the center of Russian vassalage under the Mongols, and after the Mongol empire disintegrated, Muscovy started conquering/uniting the various Russian states under their rule.

You can "earn" your way to having a fortress, lands, etc, without the pesky concept of vassalage.

We explain how the “vassalage model” is turning Anthropic and other players into dependent tenants of the future intelligence infrastructure — and what this means for Europe, China, Taiwan, and the entire world.

Also, "vassalage" is a bold word, if the US cannot make the EU give up Greenland or come running to help them in the Strait of Hormuz (there are also other examples).

In a world where your goods and services are built and sold all over the world at any given time, where everyone talks across continents at every hour of the day, a lot of the old "national" dimensions simply don't matter - or keep us in a state of vassalage towards folks who have already embraced the future.

EU seems hell bent on joining them in Vassalage.