They are slowly roasting it, but they still find it useful. If they sense they might lose control of the us, they'll just floor it.
that is one thing about them: they can never take their foot off the gas.
I wonder if that is true, and it probably is. But they are pragmatists, and if the US wasn't supporting them or wasn't around at all, they would be sitting ducks for their "neighbors".
@RoninGrey
You know it, they will destroy america before they will let it be wrested from their claws.