Western Europe and the allies of the United States have had the United States subsidizing with American military power
The national defence why spend money on keeping your nation safe when the Americans will do the job
The United Kingdom would not have been able to have a national health service without scrapping the admiralty
And the UK fleet and the social welfare systems will not have been impossible with out the USA taking care of defense
What it meant for the USA they get to right open Nations foreign policy it's a open faact in the United Kingdom
That the UK doesn't have a independent foreign policy they just do what America says because it's in their and over nation's interests
And the USA as if you believe the USA is a force for good