is the price of sovereignty too high?

No. It's not. I say this as a natural-born U.S. citizen.

It's academic at this point, and probably doesn't need to be said on a social media site like Lemmy, but free and open societies cannot trust the United States government anymore. It is now, and has been since 2016, firmly in the category of every other authoritarian pariah aggressor state on this shithole planet.

Until my fellow citizens and I conduct a 2nd American Revolution to depose the christo-fascist techno-feudalists, the U. S. A. should be considered an existential threat to your country wherever you are, just like the CCP, Putin's regime, the Kim dynasty of dictators of the DPRK, the Islamo-fascists in Iran, the Saudi royal family, <insertAuthoritarianDouchebagsHere>, etc.

No state on Earth is an individual's "friend", to be clear; the pariah states will likely seek to kill you faster and more unscrupulously.