Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

"Öjevind Lång" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> "Brandon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Öjevind Lång" wrote:
>> > "Brandon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
>> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> > > Europe has two basic choices:  They can have the U.S.
>> > > engaged in the world, or not.  In the former case, you would
>> > > be far better off cooperating with us, a la the U.K. and the
>> > > New Europe, than confronting us, as the Franco-German
>> > > leaders would have it.
>> >
>> > You mean that you'll nuke us otherwise?
>>
>> Not at all.  We would, if it came to it, do to you what we
>> did to the Soviet Union -- spend you into bankruptcy.  We'd
>> have help, too -- the E.U. doesn't have the advantage the
>> U.S.S.R. did, in that they can hardly send tanks in to keep
>> the Eastern European democracies in line ... the E.U. not
>> having any substantial supply of tanks.
> 
> So if Europe doesn't jump through hoops for the US, the US will
> ruin us economically.That's interesting information. Thank you.
> However, as long as your government keeps borrowing one billion
> dollars a day from other countries (much of it from Europe) to
> save itself from bankruptcy, I doubt that you really have the
> ability to do this, even if the willingness apparently is there on
> the part of you and some others. 

I wonder what kind of spending war he's threatening us with.  Unless 
he's threatening to invade Europe with the military hardware that the 
US is producing, any ramp up in military spending is going to be one-
sided.


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