Europe’s Collapse, America’s Hemisphere: The End of Subsidized Illusions
VII. The European Model: US-Funded Illusions on Borrowed Time While Israel was running its permanent-emergency script in the Middle East, Europe was running a different, but related, illusion: US-paid socialism. For decades, European governments built expansive welfare states, heavy regulatory structures, and elaborate social promises under the assumption that the United States would quietly underwrite … Read more