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ionelvInstances that US has exerted great influence on Europe:
1. 1870-1913 Grain Invasion has triggered great upheavals in Europe (e.g. 1907 Peasant Revolt in Romania)
2. 1914-1918: WWI involvement and seeds for WWII when Wilson acquiesced the French demands for German reparations (which were never honoured but were used as casus belli by Hitler).
3. 1920-1938: Major US Corporations contributions to rebuilding and arming Nazi Germany and Nazi propaganda was modelled after US/UK propaganda (which spread throughout Europe as well (eg. Legionarism in Romania)
4. 1938-1946: WWII and the Land Lease Act (LLA) injections of technology and war materiel to Soviet Union.
5. 1942+: VOA/RFE radio broadcasting American propaganda in Europe.
6. 1947-1991: Marshall Plan, creation of NATO and expansion of communism all the way to Berlin as a result of LLA’s boost of Soviet Union’s sphere of influence.
7. 1973: Yom Kippur War and resulting Oil Crisis that drove up oil prices and interest rates globally that affected both small creditors (bankruptcies galore stateside) and state creditors (Latin America hyperinflation and sovereign defaults, high unemployment, recession and stagflation in Western Europe, or declining standards of living in countries such as Romania, Poland or Yugoslavia that tried to keep up with ballooning interest payments).
8. 1977-1985: Billy Graham visits and preaches in Eastern Europe seeding evangelicalism.
9. 1989+: Neoliberal policies and NATO extended to Eastern Europe and funded heavily by US State Dept, CIA/DOD propaganda and a few billionaires non-profit orgs that groomed the future European neoliberal political elites.
10. 1994: Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine/NATO partnership as the dual fuses that gifted Europe the later 2014 Crimea annexation and current Ukraine War.
Bonus: 1972+ US-China relations normalization that has brought us the current geopolitical and global economy situation. This is the biggest (Trojan?) gift that will keep on giving to the whole world for many decades into the future.
1. 1870-1913 Grain Invasion has triggered great upheavals in Europe (e.g. 1907 Peasant Revolt in Romania)
2. 1914-1918: WWI involvement and seeds for WWII when Wilson acquiesced the French demands for German reparations (which were never honoured but were used as casus belli by Hitler).
3. 1920-1938: Major US Corporations contributions to rebuilding and arming Nazi Germany and Nazi propaganda was modelled after US/UK propaganda (which spread throughout Europe as well (eg. Legionarism in Romania)
4. 1938-1946: WWII and the Land Lease Act (LLA) injections of technology and war materiel to Soviet Union.
5. 1942+: VOA/RFE radio broadcasting American propaganda in Europe.
6. 1947-1991: Marshall Plan, creation of NATO and expansion of communism all the way to Berlin as a result of LLA’s boost of Soviet Union’s sphere of influence.
7. 1973: Yom Kippur War and resulting Oil Crisis that drove up oil prices and interest rates globally that affected both small creditors (bankruptcies galore stateside) and state creditors (Latin America hyperinflation and sovereign defaults, high unemployment, recession and stagflation in Western Europe, or declining standards of living in countries such as Romania, Poland or Yugoslavia that tried to keep up with ballooning interest payments).
8. 1977-1985: Billy Graham visits and preaches in Eastern Europe seeding evangelicalism.
9. 1989+: Neoliberal policies and NATO extended to Eastern Europe and funded heavily by US State Dept, CIA/DOD propaganda and a few billionaires non-profit orgs that groomed the future European neoliberal political elites.
10. 1994: Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine/NATO partnership as the dual fuses that gifted Europe the later 2014 Crimea annexation and current Ukraine War.
Bonus: 1972+ US-China relations normalization that has brought us the current geopolitical and global economy situation. This is the biggest (Trojan?) gift that will keep on giving to the whole world for many decades into the future.
