Essentially this notice can be summarized as follows: If you really end the Marshall Plan, credit rating agencies will have to lower their credit rating for all of Europe due to increased financial risk.
Now, tell me again how Europe is not living on the back of America.
LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) – Progressive U.S. disengagement from European security affairs is negative for Europe’s sovereign credit ratings, Moody’s said on Monday, due the increased defence costs the region’s governments will now face.
A summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)) in Turkey last week saw its 32 member countries agree to shift the balance of responsibility for Europe’s defence to the alliance’s European members, and away from the United States.
“The (U.S.) disengagement is credit negative for European sovereigns,” a report by two of Moody’s top rating analysts said. It said the “credit effect” would depend on how the shift was managed in the coming years. (SOURCE)
When it comes to irony, Emmanuel Macron has, quite possibly, the world’s worst timing.
The smallest turd in an outhouse full of turds….Cg
Haha. You have a way words Craig.
“The smallest turd in an outhouse full of turds….”
Sometimes the smallest of turds can propagate the largest of stink………
They are all “floaters” in the cesspool of European humanity.
Needle up that song will ya, Ronnie?
Oh look….it’s TEAM Stupid….
That’s such a bromance between a couple of ignorant midgets.
How pathetic they look without Trump there; even deep staters and lefties must notice.
Let’s show how irrelevant we are is not a good look.
Always so disappointing to run out of other people’s money.
Sacré blue!
Someone said the word “Washington”.
Trump is living rent free in their heads.
Like so many other liberals across the world; dreaming is one thing, financial reality quite another!
I already said the U.S. must disengage from the EU, Moody’s. You don’t have to sell me on it.
You don’t try to be friends with crazy, you don’t enable it, you don’t try to fix it, you avoid it.
This is where we’re at with Europe.
And you certainly don’t argue with it because they’ll drag you into unfamiliar territory, i.e., stupidity, and then beat you with experience at being stupid!
The U.S. should not even recognize the EU. It is an organization not a sovereign nation and we are not a member of that organization. If the EU was sovereign in its own right, then France and Germany and the rest would no longer be sovereign and would not have diplomatic relations with the U.S. and would not have embassies and consulates in the U.S., nor would we have any with them. Those countries will never give up their right to have their own diplomatic relations with the U.S. or with any other country. They would sooner there be no EU than to give up those kind of rights, so we should just call their EU bluff and tell them we will not engage diplomatically with the EU in any way. See what happens then.
Well reasoned conclusion! How can we get that message to the President and the Sec of State?
I LOVE that idea.
Red carpet then all standing with the Great and Powerful Z in the middle.
They could at least give him a little box to stand on.
Or even a large one to make him appear as an adult male.
Or he could just wear his highest stilettos. And, his hot pants.
I’d rather call them on the carpet
Never saw this coming, said nobody.
“Essentially this notice can be summarized as follows: If you really end the Marshall Plan, credit rating agencies will have to lower their credit rating for all of Europe due to increased financial risk.
Now, tell me again how Europe is not living on the back of America.”
THIS and yet they hate us.
They can’t say enough bad shit about us- as evidenced by a flood of global tourists here for the World Cup that have been shocked at how amazing America is, our people, our culture, our food, everything about us- now why are they shocked? they are shocked because of what their own governments have brainwashed them into thinking about us and here we are footing their bills, their lifestyles, forced to clean up one mess after another that the low IQ inbred ruling class gets them into and creates.
I’m beyond done with who they are and what they do.
You are damn right we need to throw this evil parasite off our backs.
This is the Rob Reiner effect where the parents give, provide, and give more and still, the “adult” child hates them to the point of ending/destroying them.
They have been a parasite for decades, despise us, and look upon us with contempt. If they could then they would love to see us destroyed and reduced to the nothings that they think we are even though they will be eliminating their source of financial security.
This is a good analogy and it’s spot on.
What we need to see here is that this is mental illness and history shows us that it winds up deadly- every time.
This is not right, it’s not normal, it’s not anything we’re going to fix, we need to see it all for what it is and then steer clear of it before we become the victim of it, as the Reiner’s were and America as a whole has become.
This is the stuff Jordan Peterson has worked so hard to teach us, to SEE things for what they really are with these people.
These are the very hard choices of life, the truth is quite often ugly and painful but to then deny it is to wind up with a big case of the suicidal empathy that drags us all down and that is exactly what has happened to our country.
We’ve been dragged under water trying to save people that hate us and want us dead..
The evil parasite is the people that control the EU, the same evil parasite that fills our own government, and most others as well. In simplest form there is Team Slavery and Team Freedom, with the majority of SCOTUS, Congress, and bureaucrats of the Executive, as well as most other governments, media, academia, etc., etc., playing for Team Slavery, and all the average joe’s as represented by those tourists on Team Freedom.
The main problem is that most of those people on Team Freedom don’t even realize their is a contest for the World being played. Hopefully those shocked tourists will continue to spread the news back to their own countries.
It is time that the United States stops being the world’s piggy bank. The U.S. has enough debt of its own to take care of.
The debt was created for these freeloaders, amongst many other grifters.
That’s a lot of stupid standing there. How would you rank them from dumb to dumbest? I don’t know where to start quite honestly.
The stupid are front and center.
Useful idiots are used to fill in the pic.
Father forgive me for enjoying Europe’s humiliation so much.
Does this mean Leica cameras will be coming down in price soon? : )
With Zeiss lenses?
Sadly, the dirty little secret is that most Zeiss lenses and some Leitz lenses have been made in Japan for the past several years.
Globalization strikes again.
Cosina manufactures for Zeiss.
And if you compare Panasonic/Lumix lenses to Leica SL lenses, many are virtually identical.
I think it’s just the M series Leica rangefinder lenses that are still made in German.
Soon to say “Made in China”???
Get out of NATO. They can hate us for free.
And remove the UN from our soil in the defunding process
THIS is exactly the time to pull a ‘Sovereign Citizen‘ routine on the UN and their purported ICC and assert our free and unfettered freedom given by God and applicable to all mankind, subject to the will of the people in their election of representatives to form the government.
Refer them then to the Decl. of Independence and the US Constitution, with supplemental reading of the Federalist Papers.
Take away Daddy USA’s credit line, and the Eurofreeloaders can’t afford to support themselves.
Like the in-law who moves in, won’t work, and arrogantly complains about the free food.
Said in-law departs immediately and potentially painfully.
And they were just staying for the Holidays…
New Years to Christmas! 🙂
“Don’t you go falling in love it, now, cause we’re taking it with us when we leave here next month.”
Cousin Eddie from the Vacation movies?
Who cares, let’s leave.
What happens to welfare recipients when the welfare is cut off. Go to work or die!
If you think it is all free and that the free will never end, it may cost you your life.
To Moody’s I would say, “Don’t threaten us with a good time!”
For the United States-Go ahead and terminate the Marshall Plan. Our economy will soar.
As for Europe? I would quote Andy Dufresne:
“I guess it comes down to a simple choice really . Get busy living or get busy dying.”
The Marshall Plan, as originally envisioned, specified a fairly short expiration date. It was never intended to be permanent, and I think that the original European governments that it was intended to support fully understood that. They needed help to “get back on their feet,” but that’s exactly what they intended to do.
Intentions change with successive administrations in government, unsurprisingly.
Their successors should’ve seen the end of it coming years ago, but self deception has a way of clouding judgement as well as normalcy bias.
Worse for them is the entitlement mentality, rather than accepting the terms were going to change and adapting to the circumstances they fight it.
Europe has been butchering each other for centuries. Why would we want anything to do with them? Should have left us out of WW1/WW2. It was basically all for nothing. Then the Brits took over our financial system.
Boo hoo.
Thank goodness President Trump has effectively already ended the Marshall Plan with tariffs ………with the exception of the miscarriage of purpose that is NATO.
Hello Sundance,
I decided to run your article (for fun, so to speak) through an AI model (local, on my system) and phrased the prompt in the following fashion:
The answer provided might be of an interest to you. This is AIs take:
I would say that AI, in a roundabout way, shares your view of things. You are on the mark, again.
Why worry about who is going to defend you
when you INVITE the unveted enemy in,
through OPEN BORDERS?
That is insanity.
I didn’t see Meloni in the photo op.
How many photos do these twits take together in a year…just a complete joke.
I think it is the thing that shocked me the most.
I never realized how much we were giving, how much the world only survived because of what we gave, and how ungrateful the world was at the same time. It was an abusive generosity.
Things just keep getting worse, and worse, and worse for Europe. Yet they don’t seem to care, or even notice.