Thread by @Miryam1968

No country in the world has benefited as much from the European debacles as the #US. During the Napoleonic wars, the massive mobilization of peasants left the fields deserted and the powers at war were in urgent need of food.
In the US they rushed to fill the gap and spent years

selling everything salable to war-torn #Europe.

Profits were so high that they laid the foundation for prodigious economic growth during the 19th century. There was another indirect benefit: the poverty and famines left by the war forced millions of #Europeans

to emigrate to the #USA, a basically depopulated country, which received some ten million outcasts in just under twenty years.
With the European emigrants came new technologies, new ideas, and a workforce that was abundant, cheap, and willing to do anything. A bargain!!.

However, greater was the gift that the First World War meant for the #US. With the great powers destroying themselves, the US applied itself to trade with the two fighting blocks, obtaining astral benefits.
It did not go to war until months before the end of the conflict, due to

the desperate pressure of the British Empire, which the war was bleeding human, commercial and economically.

Until then, trade with the #British bloc had gone from 824 million dollars in 1914 to 3,215 million dollars in 1916.

Its sales to the central powers - #Germany, above all - went from 169 million to 3,214 million in the same period. .

US troops entered #France in June 1918 and #Germany, exhausted and without reserves, surrendered in November of that year.

The US fought for ONLY 4 months and lost fewer soldiers in total than either France or Germany in a single battle.

Of 115,000 US dead, only 50,000 were killed in combat. The rest died of disease.
#Europe was left in ruins and indebted to the US.

The business, for this country, was so big that its GDP went from 33,000 million dollars in 1914 to 72,000 million in 1920.

An increase of 120% in just six years.
From its economic hegemony, the US handled the Versailles Conference at will, which condemned Germany to total ruin.

In that conference, guided by hatred of the German, the Second World War was conceived.

For the rest, the American soldiers brought to Europe the so-called Spanish flu, which contributed to further aggravate the European collapse.!!!

The Second World War forced the #US to make a greater and earlier effort, but even so, it left more benefits than the first …

It was a thing that the war broke out so that its industrial production increased by 20%.
In April 1940, the US had surpassed the level existing in 1929

when the Great Depression. At the end of the conflict, US casualties totaled 404,399 soldiers (official figures), less than half the Soviet casualties at Stalingrad.

Furthermore, it was the only belligerent country whose territory had not suffered any damage.

Thanks to European destruction, the US merchant marine accounted for 66% of the world's tonnage and its trade surplus was, in 1945, $40.7 billion.

To give you all an idea, a 1940 dollar would be equivalent to 20 dollars in 2022.

That is, the surplus was about 800,000 million current dollars.

#Europe, on the other hand, was destroyed.!!!

Industrial production had fallen by 40% and agricultural production by up to 50%, in addition to the countries drowning in debt.

The Marshall Plan increased the wealth of the #US and, certainly, allowed the beneficiaries to rise up, but that plan - loans, in reality - was

religiously paid for by the Europeans. It was business, not charity (hence the average GDP per capita in Europe was $5,013, compared to $27,331 in the US).

With the Marshall Plan came the American companies, in what was the birth certificate of the transnationals.

And with the Marshall Plan came #NATO, an organization that translated the political and economic hegemony of the US into military terms.

The IIGM left the USA as master and lord of Western Europe, as the Great War had turned it into the greatest industrial power in the world.

As Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith would say, "No country in modern times emerged from war in such happy economic circumstances as the United States in 1945."

So much so that, in 1950, the US owned 50% of the world's GDP, something never seen in the brief history of

human time. Western #Europe, on the other hand, was subordinated in everything to US policies.

Although the roots went back to the WWI, the dependence of Western Europe on the US was created in the framework of the Cold War, and that dependence (political, commercial, economic,

military and ideological) became #pathological.

The EU became a chicken coop.!!

Has that changed in 2022? Oh! YES, for the worse.!!

I am leaving some data for you, the intelligent reader, to draw the conclusions you want …

The chicken coop is facing an energy crisis with -almost- no solution, which the US takes advantage of to sell its gas at four or five times the price of last February.

The arms hysteria leaves a clear and total winner: the US military-industrial complex. The empire is dragging the roost into war with China; if there is war, the chicken coop will collapse (Germany first), since economic relations with China are vital for the EU, just as Russian

gas is vital.!!

The US seized their lands from the indigenous people and from Mexico and enriched itself by enslaving Blacks people!
That is well known.
Less is known that liquid, fresh money, money in huge, astronomical amounts, has left Europe, milked in every war and conflict

by the US. The #US is not interested in the chicken coop. Just their money.

The euro has collapsed (the ruble has NOT) and is on par with the dollar.

With huge benefits for the US, since gas and oil are paid for in dollars, like hundreds of other goods.

This means that an extra 20% must be added to the increase in the price of fuel, since until a few weeks ago they paid 1.20 dollars for one euro. Do you get it? 🤔

But pay attention to the fact!!

In this 21st century there is no #Europe/#USA binomial dominating the world.

There is another world, plural, multipolar, industrial, waiting for its opportunity.

They are #China, #Russia, #India, #Indonesia, #Iran, #Brazil, #SouthAfrica...

In that world the EU counts for little, it counts for NOTHING!.

European Normandy syndrome may hasten its end, since its pathological submission to the US has led it to give up defending its interests.!!!

Thus, for example, the #US has its own self-sufficient sources of energy while Europe lacks them.

The US will collect the billions of euros that are overpaid for US gas, oil and weapons and, with this, will continue the transfer of fresh money from the European chicken coop to

the pockets of Uncle Sam. The #US wins, the #EU loses.

A captive Europe that appreciates its captivity and even presents itself willing to die for its captor, although that captor would never risk his safety for this sad old and blind chicken coop …!!

#Hollywood cinema has done the rest, with the audiovisual bombardment of an industry that has had direct historical ties with the #CIA and the #Pentagon.

That is how the vision of the US emerged and was created in Western Europe as an immortal superpower that can do anything.🤮

The US is Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Aquaman...

The political analysis has become blind obedience.

The image of D-Day and of a country that, at any moment, could fill Western Europe with supplies and weapons, was engraved in the European unconscious.

The #myth of all those superheroes turned into a syndrome, the Normandy syndrome.

Like the one in Stockholm, but at the level of a zombie plague.!!!

And, you know? those undead end up, in the movies, all dying. Don't be wrong either.!!

There will be no other Seventh Cavalry.

He's busy with China. 'Happy end'.!! Oh!