The United States, benevolent sponsors of a Europe which was not intended to « fuck » them-Liberation

« Listen, let's be honest, the European Union has been designed to enter the United States »gathered on Wednesday, Donald Trump. “It was the goal and they succeeded. But now I am the president. «  We already knew that, for the American president, the union was a « enemy » On the commercial level as he proclaimed from his first mandate, which is already in itself absurd, but that he thinks that European construction was a plot against America, there, we remain like two flan rounds.

Because if the United States has not created Europe, since nothing could have been done against the will of France and Germany, they were obviously completely favorable and this for two reasons. On the one hand, because they did not intend to fly a third time to the aid of European democracies. On the other hand, in the context of the emerging Cold War (we are in 1950), the old continent had to be urgently rearmious to deal with the Soviet bear, which could only be done in the context of a Franco-German reconciliation.

In 1950, Washington was therefore closely informed of the preparation of the Schuman plan aimed at creating the coal community and steel (CECA) between six European countries. His goal was to break the all-pure