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jpz | 4 years ago

The EU project has always been a project rather paternalistically cultivated by US foreign operations, including intelligence operations, so I believe.

It allowed them to remove a heap of troops from forward bases in the region.

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visarga|4 years ago

I think Europeans have had enough wars to want a more stable Europe, with or without US support.

jpz|4 years ago

Tt was the CIA that infiltrated the communists in Italy for the exact purpose of shaping the politics of the continent to their design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy

See also:

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/11/13/how-the-cia-created-th...

You may think that this accordance of like-mind was spontaneous, but it has clearly been a half-century long project of the United States.

No wonder their disappointment when their main man inside the bloc, the UK, elected to leave.