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NATO Europe has been subservient to the US since the end of WW2.

This is not true though. There have been numerous major attempts at rebellion from the Europeans and every time they had to be put in their place.

I will skip over WWI but it is worth noting that the US plan to destroy Europe was already in play since the 1910s, when the US demanded the Allies to repay their war debt, which directly led to WWII as the European powers squeezed the defeated Germany to pay reparations so they can in turn pay back their debt owed to the American creditors, and this led to the rise of Nazi Germany and WWII.

Post-WWII, the limits of Bretton Woods were soon felt by Europe, and by the late 1960s, the US had printed so much dollars in Vietnam that the French Indochina banks simply did not know what to do with those dollars. This resulted in the French President Pompidou demanding that the US pay them in gold (as per Bretton Woods agreement) rather than paper dollars, and led to Nixon abruptly abandoning the Bretton Woods. The French got nothing in the end. This was their first punishment.

The second attempt occurred in the 1990s, following the dissolution of the USSR. Seizing on the non-financialized Soviet industrial assets, the European capitalists were able to convert them into a vast amount of finance capital that enabled the creation of European Union (formerly EEC) in 1993 and the currency euro that was formalized by 1999. This was also a major attempt at directly challenging the hegemony of the US dollar. A prominent clause in the Maastricht Criteria is that EU member state has to stay within 3% of GDP deficit spending. In response, the Balkans were immediately destabilized and forced the EU countries to militarize and overspend their budget. As a result, Euro plunged from ~1.2 EUR/USD to 0.85 EUR/USD by 2000. This was Europe’s second punishment.

The third attempt happened in the 2000s when Europe realized that they needed to seek energy sovereignty to improve its chances of decoupling. They found in Saddam the desire of Iraq to sell their oil in euro instead of the dollar. This also involved the Chevron “bribery” case during which they “illegally paid” Iraq with the oil purchased from 2001-2002 under the UN “oil-for-food” program. The result was that Iraq was immediately invaded in 2003, ending this nonsense that the Europeans started. Chevron was also subsequently fined in 2008 for its illegal kickbacks made to Iraq. This was the third punishment.

Concurrently, apart from Iraq, Europe also sought a long term and steady energy supply from Russia. This led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004-2005, which eventually led to the construction of Nord Stream pipeline that flows directly from Russia to Germany, bypassing Ukraine. Their chances came during the 2009 financial crisis, which dealt a serious blow to the US finance capital. With Nord Stream I coming online in 2011, the EU was able to reinvigorate its manufacturing sector (mostly high tech industrial products and vehicle exports). This needed to be disciplined - and so the Maidan Revolution happened in 2013, and led to the Ukrainian Civil War in 2014-2015. This was the fourth punishment.

The fifth and final punishment is now. Nord Stream 2 finished its construction in 2021, and was met with various regulatory red tapes that perpetually delayed its commission. At the same time, Russia and China signed a 30-year natural gas supply contract to be paid in euro. This needs to be immediately disciplined - and so the Russian invasion of Ukraine began and the sanctions against Russia also cut off their energy supply to Europe. When Europe was about to fold in the summer of 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines were bombed, which completely broke any possible alternative energy source for Europe.

And with the loss of energy sovereignty, this permanently puts an end to the sovereignty of the EU.