The European Union Must Demonstrate Some Testicular Fortitude In Breaking With The USA
To secure its future…
The effects of America’s leadership, at the best of times, have been quite meretricious for its allies.
And at worst?
Cataclysmically abysmal.
While it is worth pointing out to students and non-students of history that if it weren’t for the United States, much of Europe would have remained in the grips of the National Socialists, who were motivated by racial purity and genocidal fascism, the basis of this piece is focused mainly on what’s taken place in the intervening decades.
America’s foreign policy in the last 80 years, has played out like one of those economic theories, with which we have become accustomed: game theory.
John Nash, whose life story was depicted quite memorably by Russell Crowe in the Academy Award nominated film — A Beautiful Mind — developed concepts such as Zero Sum Game, Dominant Strategy, Nash Equilibrium, Winner’s curse and Prisoner’s dilemma.
And these ideas have played out quite extraordinarily in the lives of billions of people around the world, with one player winning quite handily and the rest ending up with nothing.