I don't get it. Why do you need their permission, but they don't need yours?
They have guns, tanks, aircraft carriers, and thermonuclear weapons. I have nothing.
Yeah, they got that shit from people obeying them all the time. Sucks now, but best to try not to support and strengthen them anymore imo. There is a reason they don't actually use that stuff on us all the time, it's not really all that profitable to do.