Europe as a whole benefits from U.S. imperialism, but look at it from the perspective of working Europeans on the ground. Their leaders are telling them they aren’t doing imperialism, so the runoff benefits they get are not sold to them as part of the deal. Then those runoff benefits keep getting eaten up by price hikes like this, which are directly tied to the war.
I legitimately hate this line, like why are we pretending as if Europe doesn’t benefit from US imperialism?
Europe as a whole benefits from U.S. imperialism, but look at it from the perspective of working Europeans on the ground. Their leaders are telling them they aren’t doing imperialism, so the runoff benefits they get are not sold to them as part of the deal. Then those runoff benefits keep getting eaten up by price hikes like this, which are directly tied to the war.
They certainly don’t benefit from expensive energy inputs.