@Furunculus
UK's best national interest doesn't equal the best interest for its people. If I remember correctly, America apparently gave "incentives" to the nation for them to tag along at the cost of our lives.

"America to refuse to service our missiles" Why do we need America too? Does the Iran service our tanks?
"Switch off GPS" why not have our own GPS? Do the Russians use America's GPS too?
"Stop UK's nuclear derrent from fulfilling its purpose" It would really stop America, wouldn't? 'we won't give you the codes lalallala'

I mean, why bother with Europe, we already have our best buddy America telling us what to do anyway, I mean, any hope of sunshine away from American Imperialism is just simply evil. let's worship America. I mean, we don't even need a military, don't we have captain America to protect us all, they seem to have all their bases all over our lands, I mean, it's not like it's a Godwin-ism there.

Really, it is really amusing. Speak of a European Federation with democracy and elections... BOOOO!!! but speak of American Imperialism and look at them go to protect poor America's feelings and saying there is nothing wrong about it. Hypocrites.


@Sarmatian
According to this - http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/BSR_2007_Baseline.pdf
There are around 823 overseas bases, apparently.