The US has worked hard to engineer a recovery for the global financial crisis that counters any efforts for greater cooperation across Europe. Merkel believed

The US has worked hard to engineer a recovery for the global financial crisis that counters any efforts for greater cooperation across Europe. Merkel believed strongly in a peaceful partnership for the Eurasian continent (which included Russia) and the US saw this as an economic threat greater than that of China’s rise. We’re living through the results of American intervention in Europe.