The vision of a united peaceful Europe after World War II, built with billions of dollars in financial aid under America’s Marshall Plan, laid a solid foundation for America’s European expansion strategy — defended by NATO — against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact countries expansion plans. It was brilliant!
A peaceful united Europe, defended by NATO to checkmate Soviet domination was a transplantation of America’s Monroe Doctrine – enunciated in 1823 by President James Monroe – America’s fifth president. The Monroe Doctrine was adopted to deter European imperialism in the Western Hemisphere and ensure U.S. hegemony in the region.
The Marshall Plan and NATO, deterred Soviet imperialism in Europe and ensured U.S. hegemony.
The Marshall Plan ended in 1952. The EU was founded in 1957 with six members that has grown to 27 members speaking 23 official languages and 15 currencies, even after creation of the euro. It is difficult to see how Europe can ever be one cohesive unit. “The EU was a non-starter from the outset” I wrote in Custom Maid Knowledge for New World Disorder.
Why is anyone surprised at Brexit, or that other European countries are thinking, trying, and probably will exit the EU?
Financial aid and a military defense mechanism like NATO, a subject I also discuss at length questioning its legitimacy in Custom Maid Knowledge – and the subject of next week’s blog – created a secure and peaceful Europe. The Western Alliance. The EU on the other hand, created a handout union of welfare states, multi-national bureaucracy, funded by donor states. Who can blame the Brits, Dutch, French and Germans who are upset at the Greeks and other Southern Europeans?
The fact is the European Constitution is dead – dead and cold – unless it gets back to its historical competitive roots, without the wars. Europe is the product of intense competition of numerous states on a small continent. The competition has to get a lot stiffer and welfare support systems eliminated for Europe to survive as a union. Something that just isn’t going to happen.
The EU is much like the Byzantine Empire before it disappeared – a weak center with limited means to pursue its interests and stabilize its periphery. The EU is rudderless and directionless since its draft constitution was defeated in the French and Dutch referendums in 2005.
European solidarity as an economic and financial unit is an illusory dream that was DOA.