3 ms·
Nit pick alert ! The EU was created in response to the opportunity that the fall of the Soviets provided - to bind in and develop the economies of eastern europ
by sgt101 10y ago
Nit pick alert ! The EU was created in response to the opportunity that the fall of the Soviets provided - to bind in and develop the economies of eastern europe. The binding of France to Germany was achieved with the European Economic Community, the removal of German military infrastructure and the comprehensive occupation of Germany by the UK, France, USSR and USA.
I don't see the USA as invested in preventing the rise of a European power that shares, approximately, the values of the USA. The USA entered WWII reluctantly, and the effect of it's entry was to shorten the war by many years, possibly a decade. Christ alone knows what the USSR would have looked like as the eventual winner in 1955. My thinking is, shattered in every conceivable way.
- cynusx 10y agoUS decided only to commit to D-day when the soviets were gaining ground on the Germans. In fact by the time they made the decision to do that, the soviets had already liberated half of ukraine. 4 months after the decision, the soviets had liberated the whole of ukraine. The soviets war machine steamrolled the rest of Germany and only US forces would be able to stop them from occupying the whole of europe.