Author: Sima Nan Channel Zhiyuan
According to Observer Network , German Chancellor Scholz html said on 511 that the "Inflation Reduction Act" issued by the United States has attempted to protect American companies from the challenges of competition for foreign goods by sacrificing European companies at the expense of European companies. The US move may cause "a huge tariff war." Coincidentally, German Vice Premier Habern also named the United States accused the country of "routinely raising the price of natural gas ", adding fuel to the fire of the European energy crisis. In fact, it is not only the senior German government officials who scolded the United States for being "unkind", French President Macron and Finance Minister Le Maire recently pointed his gun at the United States and banged violently: France cannot accept the US's sky-high price in natural gas exports, and the Ukrainian war cannot end with the weakening of US economic hegemony and European status, but requires establishing more equal economic relations with the United States in the energy field.
France and Germany have recently vented dissatisfaction with the United States, which is actually just a microcosm of the entire Europe's actions to oppose the US economic plunder. Although other European countries dare not publicly bombard the United States, their people are honest. They expressed their withdrawal from NATO and EU , lifting sanctions on Russia, and getting rid of their dependence on the United States by holding large-scale protest rallies. Obviously, an unprecedented energy crisis in Europe has forced most local countries to the opposite side of the United States, and publicly or not "declare war" on US economic hegemony.
In fact, it is no wonder that European allies want to "collectively rebel". In the final analysis, the United States is too unkind in many things. You should know that European countries have been used by the United States to charge on the frontline of anti-Russia since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. To this end, European countries not only provided Ukraine with a large amount of weapons and equipment, but also paid a huge economic price without participating in the United States' sanctions against Russia. It is because of the cooperation with the US's energy embargo on Russia that an energy crisis broke out in all European countries. The resulting inflation has caused stagnation of European economic development, forced the shutdown of factories and enterprises, and the interests of people's livelihood have also been seriously damaged.
However, when the economy of European allies was in a quagmire of stagflation, the United States not only did not consider reaching out to pull it up, but instead took advantage of the situation and plundered European wealth. To this end, the United States has continuously raised the natural gas price exported to Europe, and has used the huge price gap between the United States and Europe to offer generous conditions, seducing many large European companies to the United States to invest and build factories. This series of operations by the United States not only seriously weakened Europe's political and economic influence, but also caused Europe to be " de-industrialized " due to the energy crisis.
In this context, if Europe does not intend to wake up, it will boycott the US economic hegemony policy. Perhaps, after the end of a Ukrainian war, not only will Ukraine be covered in dust, but the European economy will also be covered in bruises. By then, Europe will not even have the qualifications to compete with other countries and regions, both in terms of economic, diplomatic and industrial strength. According to German economists, Europe will completely lose the competition with the United States.
There is another thing that is more worthy of attention. Under the manipulation of the United States, Europe and Russia have become a rift. It is unlikely that it will continue to import energy from Russia in the future as before. Therefore, after the war, Europe not only increased its dependence on the United States on security, but also formed a new dependence on the United States on energy supply issues. This is one of the main reasons why the United States is keen to ignite the Ukrainian conflict with . After all, in this way, Europe will not be able to get rid of its dependence on the United States in the future, so it will not even think about "European independence" in the future.
Judging from the recent dissatisfaction with the US economic hegemony shown by Germany and France, some Europe seem to have woken up from their sleep.Therefore, they not only countered the United States' economic hegemony, but also criticized EU politicians who acted as the "agents" of the United States in Europe. According to Global Network , a decision made by the EU recently angered almost all member states. According to the plan of European Commission , the wages of about 50,000 EU officials will rise by 6.9%. According to German Focus Weekly, the EU's move has aroused anger from all member states.
No wonder, European workers are now denied a strike due to demanding a salary increase, and people from all countries are in trouble because they do not survive their salary. As one of the initiators of this economic disaster in Europe, the EU unilaterally raised salaries for tens of thousands of EU officials despite the suffering of the people in the region. The consequences caused by this are not just "increasing fiscal burden". The public's disgust with this will inevitably increase more turbulent factors in European society.
The United States is the initiator of the Ukrainian war and sanctions against Russia, and the EU is its main accomplice. When the United States took advantage of the opportunity of war to shear wool to EU countries, it would be fine if the EU politicians did not want to defend the economic interests of each member state, and they continued to impose more sanctions on Russia in accordance with the US's instructions, including energy embargoes, etc., which became the minions of the United States' plunder of European wealth. It’s no wonder that while Europeans are anti-NATO, they also have to oppose the EU.
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