We seem to be taking a lot of money from the Chinese of late...I wonder if that affects your thinking about how independent our policies are “allowed” to be from theirs, and what we owe them in fealty.
Not so much really. They are about as precariously perched as we are. The difference is that they are more confident.
As for grounds for fealty, it has been more the Israelis to the U.S. and not the converse has it not? I do not begrudge this mind you but it seems they have great need for our survival in support of them and might do something about that.