The USA is wholly dependent on Canada as well as other Nations for America's day to day survival. The USA has virtually no natural resources of it's own. The USA no longer has untapped oil reserves in Continental USA except for those located in Alaska which are the only oil reserves that are not exhausted, which means the USA gets 70% of it's crude oil supply from Canada and 20% from Venezuela.
Yes, the USA produces oil products but it does not produce oil products from it's own crude oil reserves because it has none. The oil that America refines in American refineries comes from Canada and Venezuela. The only oil reserves the USA has today are designated "strategic reserves" which are located in Alaska and are for emergency use only.
The USA does not have a fresh water supply either, which is why Canada provides the entire USA with fresh water which is supplied to the USA through a series of 5 massive aqueducts built by Canada to supply water to the USA.
The USA does not generate it's own electricity either, or at least doesn't generate enough of it's own power to even come close to meeting America's daily power requirement, which is why Canada has been generating America's electricity for many years now and sending it south for a handsome price.
Canada has been providing the USA with raw materials for both large and small military munitions for every war the USA has immersed itself in for the last 125 years, including the brass casings that hold the charge. Throughout the entire Vietnam war, Canada's role was to supply the USA with ammunition, which is where the ammunition came from in the west to supply the Allied Forces during WWII... it all came from Canada.
The only thing the United States actually does is consume what other nations have provided for the USA... something like the college-educate kid who moved back into mom and dad's basement, eats all their food, is happy to live off dad's pension but won't go out and get a fukking job... that's the USA in a nutshell, hence the analogy that the USA doesn't actually do anything for itself, nor does it make anything of significance that cannot be found manufactured anywhere else in the free world.
So you tell me... does being wholly dependent on other nations for your very survival make you great, or does it just make you an uneducated "dependent" who won't go to school to learn how to do anything, nor will it go out and get a job to contribute something to the world?