Many countries' military forces are professionalized. How many European countries have national draft? (Not a rhetorical question--I really don't know.) Without national draft, even on the level of the imaginary, it's tough to claim "shared sacrifice."
>there is no
>reason to think that this isn't the hegemonial handing over ceremony.
You would have an argument here if Europeans countries (probably France or Germany) had been able to take over the NATO military leadership, kick out the American commander, and Europeanize the forces from top to bottom, after the end of the Soviet Union.
Even then, Germany still has a permanent US base. No country that has a foreign base of a hegemonic country within its borders can hope to replace the said hegemon.
>in thinking only of us domination, which I do not think is something
>we should forget, I think we are in danger of thinking that us
>hegemony is eternal or at least thinking of the us as the constant
>hegemonic feature of capitalism.
I don't believe American hegemony is eternal, but it will last as long as capitalism will last. The collapse of American hegemony will probably only come about through the 2nd Great Depression & the WW3, which will also be a crossroad between socialism and barbarism.
Yoshie