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Agreed, a single market Europe is all the US cares about It doesn't care if its German run, Russian run (as long as it is market based and not marxist based),
by vmception 6y ago
Agreed, a single market Europe is all the US cares about
It doesn't care if its German run, Russian run (as long as it is market based and not marxist based), or “not-German” wink run like today
It would have been tolerable just like Saudi Arabia is tolerable
Liquidity, market depth, and less people to negotiate with is the American priority
The moral highground arguments that it upholds now and in hindsight are just to continue deriving support from its own people, who culturally eat that shit up, but it can successfully package any moral argument for any scenario even if they are complete lies
- permo-w 6y agothat doesn’t make sense from an economic perspective. The larger your bloc is, the stronger your negotiating position is. The stronger your negotiating position is, the more you can make the US pay for your goods and services It makes very little sense to want simpler negotiations in lieu of a strong negotiating position