Have you ever visited a museum, apart from Disneyland?
You should ask yourself the question -if you're able to, which I doubt- if your not knowing, equals it doesn't exist. The answer should be obvious for people who received minimal education.
Around one thirth of the radio-isotopes used in research/diagnoses/medical treatments in the USA are produced by one of the smallest EU countries.
Around 40% of all your prescription drugs and/or the precursors to made them are EU-made.
Only a few examples of how the mghty USA, with all it's grandiosity, depends on peasants around the globe. Without us, you're nothing. Without Canada's potash your agriculture will end within a decade. And no: Elon nor another immature tech bro or a senile politician will come up with a solution.
The sheer just, ineptitude, of this comment. Imagine using the effects of liberalized and global free trade as an insult against the country that was the framer and architecht of that system.
If only there was a way we could compare the policies of the U.S. against others. Oh wait we can, Eastern vs. Western Europe. One was pillaged and extracted via empire and the other built into flourshing deomocratic, wealthy free states.
You would think that someone who had a minimal education would understand how the world they live in came to be. But here we are.
And its laughable that Europe is somehow above the rising tide while AfD is on the march, the Sweden Democrats remain and Rassemblement National is poised to win the French presidency.
If you're going to troll at least have a kernal of knowledge about the topic. If you're not a troll or bot then you're just ignorant and just as much part of the problem as any red hat in the U.S.
Oh boy... I only wanted to point out that the USA is not the super power some think it is and that the USA is, like any other country, dependent on trade with others.
It's not up to me to defend the Yankee position in this one, that traderelations are by nature reciprosal relationships.
It was only a matter of time untill someone would show up boasting that "... using the effects of liberalized and global free trade as an insultagainst the country that was the framer and architecht of that system.".
Please explain for starters what you mean by: "the country that was the framer and architecht of that system".
My friend if you dont know how the E.U. came into being then a comment on the internet isn't going to fill the gaps for you.
You could start with the Marshall Plan. Then how the ESCC (E.U precursor and foundational body) formed. Of course theres GATT, the foundational trade treaty that ran for decades and ledc to the WTO. Cant leave out NATO and its role demiliterizing inter european rivalry. Plus dozens of other smaller treaties, agreements, trade deals, joint projects (F-35, James Webb).
The U.S. is still a superpower and will remain so for a long time. Its no longer a hyper power, a position it held for 30 years.
You've fallen victim to propaganda.
No reasonably educated person ever believed the U.S. has stood singularly and could do whatever it wanted. The strength of the U.S. has always been its alliances and trade, which it built. Thats why this current moment is so bad, the source of U.S. strength is being diminished either intentionally or through sheer stupidity from within. My money is on intentional.
So, you're gonna explain "the country that was the framer and architect of liberized and free trade" with... the post ww II Marchal plan ???
Great, lol.
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u/mehnotsure 7h ago
I love Europe. But it’s turning into a museum.