Did they publish your writing?

The bricks are alliances of convenience and not true alliances like which the United States build after world War 2

America is a maritime power and maritime powers need alliance's continental powers to be effective

That would never work for the British because the British spent hundreds of years trying to keep Europe as a balance of powers

In the 18th century it allied at various times with the prussians, austrians and Dutch to contain the power of France

In the 19th century there was splendid isolation until 1914

But you already know all of that