My first post for some time, but I felt a driving force compelled me to put it here …
In the light of the 80th Anniversary of D-Day (tomorrow) You might be interested in this quite brief and very readable article that puts perspective on some political and economic history that resulted from the Second World War. Admittedly, it is written by an American under her generic title “Letters from an American”, but I have been following her epistles and think, considering her natural bias, she does have an even hand in her research, observations and writing. There will always be alternative interpretations of the so called Marshall Plan, but each of us to our own.
And under the current government, we got Brexit that countered all the international economic cooperation and development that was aimed initially at avoiding in Europe at least, another 1930’s Great Depression in consequence of WW2. Later it avoided war in Europe, because countries that trade with each other are much less likely to go to war with each other. The purpose of Brexit was, of course, to divide and conquer. We now know it divided us into two camps. On the one hand those with their prejudices and anxieties; on the other, those with at least a modicum of ability to read beneath the headlines and a capability for critical thinking, and a perspective on history. The benefit to the US now, more than ever, is obviously the power of the multinational corporates that have a foothold in Europe and elsewhere (and their own and other centres of government). Nothing new there. The political motive is clearer now, 80 years on, as it is for World Leaders’ desire for economic strength and electoral votes.
The social, economic and political interdependence of all the countries and continents of our great big wonderful Earth is, perhaps, not so clear … but it should be.
QED
