This assumes that the nations which “allied with the US after WWII” (assuming that under military occupation, they had any political or economic autonomy) were at a net negative prior to US sponsored warfare, economic depredation, and occupation/ control of puppet states. They lost political and economic independence and became USA satellites and have been ever since- I was born and raised in Europe in the late 70’s/ early 80’s, I think you would be surprised to see how mean your vaunted “economic growth and political freedom” was on the ground.
No doubt the Poles preferred the mass murder and slavery that the USSR brought to Poland post WW2 to an alternative that would have included an alliance with the US.
Most of Europe has had a vote post 1991 and they’ve chosen, democratically, to become “US satellites”. LOL.
“I was born and raised in Europe in the late 70’s/ early 80’s, I think you would be surprised to see how mean your vaunted ‘economic growth and political freedom’ was on the ground.”
Then you undoubtedly noticed that many people living in East Germany and Central Europe voted with their feet, when possible and at great personal risk, to flee totalitarian regimes for the “mean” West. The subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the so-called GDR revealed in stark manner what an utter failure, economically and politically, the communist regime was.