You mean like the bases in half of Europe as part of a strong defense military alliance that noone wants to fuck with?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive

Yeah I take that security over being proud of standing alone

https://georank.org/economy/germany/india

Population of 83mln. versus 1.3bln and still an economy that's 44% larger.

If we are vassals what is India?