Derfor forstår jeg ikke argumentasjonen din, at USA ønsker å svekke Europa for det vil kun tjene Russland og Kina.
Det har jeg ikke hevdet. USA kan hjelpe Europa ut av "gjørma" så lenge USA kan tjene på det:
American officials have become used to thinking about European problems in terms of insufficient military spending and economic stagnation. There is truth to
this, but Europe’s real problems are even deeper.
Our broad policy for Europe should prioritize:
• Reestablishing conditions of stability within Europe and strategic stability with Russia
• Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own
defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power;
• Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations;
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Opening European markets to U.S. goods and services and ensuring fair treatment of U.S. workers and businesses;
• Building up the healthy nations of Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe through
commercial ties, weapons sales, political collaboration, and cultural
and educational exchanges;
• Ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance; and
• Encouraging Europe to take action to combat mercantilist overcapacity, technological theft, cyber espionage, and other hostile economic practices.
Her er tankene til USA vedr Kina:
America First diplomacy seeks to rebalance global trade relationships. We have made clear to our allies that America’s current account deficit is unsustainable.
We must encourage Europe, Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada, Mexico, and other prominent nations in adopting trade policies that help rebalance China’s economy
toward household consumption, because Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East cannot alone absorb China’s enormous excess capacity.
The exporting nations of Europe and Asia can also look to middle-income countries as a limited but growing market for their exports.
China’s state-led and state-backed companies excel in building physical and digital infrastructure, and China has recycled perhaps $1.3 trillion of its trade surpluses
into loans to its trading partners.
America and its allies have not yet formulated, much less executed, a joint plan for the so-called “Global South,” but together
possess tremendous resources. Europe, Japan, South Korea, and others hold netn foreign assets of $7 trillion. International financial institutions, including the
multilateral development banks, possess combined assets of $1.5 trillion.
While mission creep has undermined some of these institutions’ effectiveness, this
administration is dedicated to using its leadership position to implement reforms that ensure they serve American interests.
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