It occurred to me yesterday during my swim: it would be fair to say that Western (and Eastern) European governments today are more subservient today toward the US than Warsaw countries were toward the Soviet Union. The question is when will Europe have its own "spring"? When will European protest American hegemony? No matter how much is exposed about US violations of rights and privacy of Europeans, European governments (including the formerly proud France) simply disregard the matter and march on toward more subservience toward the US.