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Allies are a SOCIALIST PLOT to DRAIN OUR MANLY SELF-RELIANCE!
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Seems like a distant memory now.
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Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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Once upon a time in the Western world:
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
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About Why Trump’s Turn Toward Russia And Away From Western Europe Is Ironic And Makes Me Sick. #authorsofinstagram #trumpputin #trumprussia #marshallplan #ukrainepeace6dstuarth2o
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
The story of the Marshall Plan
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Friday, July 11, 2025
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/
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Friday, July 11, 2025
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/
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Friday, July 11, 2025
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/
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Friday, July 11, 2025
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/
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Friday, July 11, 2025
What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv — Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply — The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead –Ukraine’s largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/friday-july-11-2025/
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
One of the key contributors to the success of the Marshall Plan was the elimination of tariffs across Europe and the US.
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
The success of the Marshall Plan laid the foundation for several global initiatives like NATO and USAID.
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The United States has sent billions in aid to Ukraine. @[email protected] explains why it might not help to rebuild after their war with Russia ends.
https://flip.it/4rd.Tf
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
On April 3, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948, aka the Marshall Plan. Named after Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe, the Plan contributed $13.3 billion in aid to 16 European nations between 1948 and 1951. The successful design, planning and execution of the Plan has been a role model for several development plans across the globe.
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When the US displayed global leadership and drove the rebuilding process for Europe post WWII.
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP102-MarshallPlan.mp3
On April 3, 1948, President Harry Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948, aka the Marshall Plan. Named after Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe, the Plan contributed $13.3 billion in aid to 16 European nations between 1948 and 1951. The successful design, planning and execution of the Plan has been a role model for several development plans across the globe.
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why is this #weeny crying? will his kids go to war? (unlikely because he is part of the #rich elite, only the #poor will DIE for even more #profit!) let me tell you this: after #ww2 and the EXCELLENT #Marshallplan of course #EU and #USA were friends, because #USA effectively helped #Europe recover from the #destruction (not without profiting) so #Europe has ALWAYS been a #Theater for #Americans to play in, play #war, play #influence. Whoever thinks this will change overnight is gravely mistaken, #Europe DOES NOT EVEL BUILD A SINGLE SMART PHONE X-D #Europe is COMPLETELY dependant on #US and #China #infotec companies (so much for "#independence"?) a #EU #Army will not solve that problem X-D
the #US #colony called #Europe is about to get thrown into the same #war and #profiteering #abyss as #Ukraine #wtf? just for #rich #asholes to get #richer that's all (read #ww1 #veteran #SmedleyButtler #warisaracket) #msc2025 -
why is this #weeny crying? will his kids go to war? (unlikely because he is part of the #rich elite, only the #poor will DIE for even more #profit!) let me tell you this: after #ww2 and the EXCELLENT #Marshallplan of course #EU and #USA were friends, because #USA effectively helped #Europe recover from the #destruction (not without profiting) so #Europe has ALWAYS been a #Theater for #Americans to play in, play #war, play #influence. Whoever thinks this will change overnight is gravely mistaken, #Europe DOES NOT EVEL BUILD A SINGLE SMART PHONE X-D #Europe is COMPLETELY dependant on #US and #China #infotec companies (so much for "#independence"?) a #EU #Army will not solve that problem X-D
the #US #colony called #Europe is about to get thrown into the same #war and #profiteering #abyss as #Ukraine #wtf? just for #rich #asholes to get #richer that's all (read #ww1 #veteran #SmedleyButtler #warisaracket) #msc2025 -
why is this #weeny crying? will his kids go to war? (unlikely because he is part of the #rich elite, only the #poor will DIE for even more #profit!) let me tell you this: after #ww2 and the EXCELLENT #Marshallplan of course #EU and #USA were friends, because #USA effectively helped #Europe recover from the #destruction (not without profiting) so #Europe has ALWAYS been a #Theater for #Americans to play in, play #war, play #influence. Whoever thinks this will change overnight is gravely mistaken, #Europe DOES NOT EVEL BUILD A SINGLE SMART PHONE X-D #Europe is COMPLETELY dependant on #US and #China #infotec companies (so much for "#independence"?) a #EU #Army will not solve that problem X-D
the #US #colony called #Europe is about to get thrown into the same #war and #profiteering #abyss as #Ukraine #wtf? just for #rich #asholes to get #richer that's all (read #ww1 #veteran #SmedleyButtler #warisaracket) #msc2025 -
why is this #weeny crying? will his kids go to war? (unlikely because he is part of the #rich elite, only the #poor will DIE for even more #profit!) let me tell you this: after #ww2 and the EXCELLENT #Marshallplan of course #EU and #USA were friends, because #USA effectively helped #Europe recover from the #destruction (not without profiting) so #Europe has ALWAYS been a #Theater for #Americans to play in, play #war, play #influence. Whoever thinks this will change overnight is gravely mistaken, #Europe DOES NOT EVEL BUILD A SINGLE SMART PHONE X-D #Europe is COMPLETELY dependant on #US and #China #infotec companies (so much for "#independence"?) a #EU #Army will not solve that problem X-D
the #US #colony called #Europe is about to get thrown into the same #war and #profiteering #abyss as #Ukraine #wtf? just for #rich #asholes to get #richer that's all (read #ww1 #veteran #SmedleyButtler #warisaracket) #msc2025 -
why is this #weeny crying? will his kids go to war? (unlikely because he is part of the #rich elite, only the #poor will DIE for even more #profit!) let me tell you this: after #ww2 and the EXCELLENT #Marshallplan of course #EU and #USA were friends, because #USA effectively helped #Europe recover from the #destruction (not without profiting) so #Europe has ALWAYS been a #Theater for #Americans to play in, play #war, play #influence. Whoever thinks this will change overnight is gravely mistaken, #Europe DOES NOT EVEL BUILD A SINGLE SMART PHONE X-D #Europe is COMPLETELY dependant on #US and #China #infotec companies (so much for "#independence"?) a #EU #Army will not solve that problem X-D
the #US #colony called #Europe is about to get thrown into the same #war and #profiteering #abyss as #Ukraine #wtf? just for #rich #asholes to get #richer that's all (read #ww1 #veteran #SmedleyButtler #warisaracket) #msc2025 -
George Marshall just rolled in his grave. Again.
#MarshallPlan
#NATO
#FuckTheMangoMussolini
#PutinWouldLoveIt“Trump has long advocated for a smaller force in Europe, especially in Germany. At the end of his first term, he ordered 12,000 troops out of Germany, with some to be relocated to other areas in Europe and others back to the U.S.” - John VanDiver
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George Marshall just rolled in his grave. Again.
#MarshallPlan
#NATO
#FuckTheMangoMussolini
#PutinWouldLoveIt“Trump has long advocated for a smaller force in Europe, especially in Germany. At the end of his first term, he ordered 12,000 troops out of Germany, with some to be relocated to other areas in Europe and others back to the U.S.” - John VanDiver
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George Marshall just rolled in his grave. Again.
#MarshallPlan
#NATO
#FuckTheMangoMussolini
#PutinWouldLoveIt“Trump has long advocated for a smaller force in Europe, especially in Germany. At the end of his first term, he ordered 12,000 troops out of Germany, with some to be relocated to other areas in Europe and others back to the U.S.” - John VanDiver
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George Marshall just rolled in his grave. Again.
#MarshallPlan
#NATO
#FuckTheMangoMussolini
#PutinWouldLoveIt“Trump has long advocated for a smaller force in Europe, especially in Germany. At the end of his first term, he ordered 12,000 troops out of Germany, with some to be relocated to other areas in Europe and others back to the U.S.” - John VanDiver
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George Marshall just rolled in his grave. Again.
#MarshallPlan
#NATO
#FuckTheMangoMussolini
#PutinWouldLoveIt“Trump has long advocated for a smaller force in Europe, especially in Germany. At the end of his first term, he ordered 12,000 troops out of Germany, with some to be relocated to other areas in Europe and others back to the U.S.” - John VanDiver
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12/ Tja. Deshalb konnte die #DDR nicht funktionieren. Jedenfalls nicht ohne #Mauer.
Das habe ich erst spät verstanden. Wir wollten ja nach der Wende eine eigenständige linke DDR, aber das wäre eben nicht gegangen.
Auch dass der Reichtum des Westens zum Großteil eben auf der Ausbeutung des Südens beruhte, den der Osten eben mangels konvertierbarer Währung nicht ausbeuten konnte. Was ich von #Hoyer gelernt habe, war, dass auch die #HallsteinDoktrin noch erschwerend hinzukam.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstein-Doktrin
Die #BRD verhinderte dadurch, dass die DDR mit anderen Ländern Handel treiben konnte. Die BRD war größer und so wichtiger und wenn andere Länder mit ihr Handel treiben wollten, konnten sie das eben nicht mit der DDR tun.
Dazu kam noch #Marshallplan vs. Reparationsleistungen an die SU, Bodenschätze vs. keine, Industriegebiete vs. wenig.
Tja.
Ist wirklich ganz schön, das alles noch mal von Anfang an zu lesen. Was industriell und kulturell wann passierte, wie sich das alles bedingte usw.
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#Extremregen, #Fluten und #Tornados töten gestern 63 Menschen in #Valencia, drittgrößte Stadt in #Spanien. In #Frankreich müssen Urlauber aufwändig evakuiert werden.
Gleichzeitig ruft #Söder nach einem #Marshallplan, welcher das #VerbrennerAus sofort rückabwickelt, Milliarden in loste Autokonzerne buttert sowie EU-CO2-Strafzahlungen einfach ignorieren soll. Und feiert Bayerns Weltraumpläne.
#Bayern ist dieses Jahr schon 3x abgesoffen.
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#Extremregen, #Fluten und #Tornados töten gestern 63 Menschen in #Valencia, drittgrößte Stadt in #Spanien. In #Frankreich müssen Urlauber aufwändig evakuiert werden.
Gleichzeitig ruft #Söder nach einem #Marshallplan, welcher das #VerbrennerAus sofort rückabwickelt, Milliarden in loste Autokonzerne buttert sowie EU-CO2-Strafzahlungen einfach ignorieren soll. Und feiert Bayerns Weltraumpläne.
#Bayern ist dieses Jahr schon 3x abgesoffen.
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#Extremregen, #Fluten und #Tornados töten gestern 63 Menschen in #Valencia, drittgrößte Stadt in #Spanien. In #Frankreich müssen Urlauber aufwändig evakuiert werden.
Gleichzeitig ruft #Söder nach einem #Marshallplan, welcher das #VerbrennerAus sofort rückabwickelt, Milliarden in loste Autokonzerne buttert sowie EU-CO2-Strafzahlungen einfach ignorieren soll. Und feiert Bayerns Weltraumpläne.
#Bayern ist dieses Jahr schon 3x abgesoffen.
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#Extremregen, #Fluten und #Tornados töten gestern 63 Menschen in #Valencia, drittgrößte Stadt in #Spanien. In #Frankreich müssen Urlauber aufwändig evakuiert werden.
Gleichzeitig ruft #Söder nach einem #Marshallplan, welcher das #VerbrennerAus sofort rückabwickelt, Milliarden in loste Autokonzerne buttert sowie EU-CO2-Strafzahlungen einfach ignorieren soll. Und feiert Bayerns Weltraumpläne.
#Bayern ist dieses Jahr schon 3x abgesoffen.
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#Extremregen, #Fluten und #Tornados töten gestern 63 Menschen in #Valencia, drittgrößte Stadt in #Spanien. In #Frankreich müssen Urlauber aufwändig evakuiert werden.
Gleichzeitig ruft #Söder nach einem #Marshallplan, welcher das #VerbrennerAus sofort rückabwickelt, Milliarden in loste Autokonzerne buttert sowie EU-CO2-Strafzahlungen einfach ignorieren soll. Und feiert Bayerns Weltraumpläne.
#Bayern ist dieses Jahr schon 3x abgesoffen.
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American voters will decide Europe’s future
#USA #USElection #EuropeFuture #TransatlanticRelations #NATO #Geopolitics #Trade #Defense #USandEU #Wars #GlobalChallenges #Trump #Harris #MarshallPlan #Europe #Euroscepticism #AmericanVoters
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American voters will decide Europe’s future
#USA #USElection #EuropeFuture #TransatlanticRelations #NATO #Geopolitics #Trade #Defense #USandEU #Wars #GlobalChallenges #Trump #Harris #MarshallPlan #Europe #Euroscepticism #AmericanVoters
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@VQuaschning Es bräuchte wohl eine Art #Marshallplan gegen die #Klimakatastrophe. Außer den #Grünen ist das leider keiner Partei zuzutrauen.
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Ein #bislang kaum #bekannter #Passus im #EU #Vertrag solle #genutzt werden, um #sich 100 #Milliarden #Euro zu #leihen.
#Zweck von #Wirtschaftshilfe im #Plan nach George C. #Marshall: #Weltwirtschaft #wiederherstellen: #Weiche #Währungen #Europas #verhinderten #Möglichkeit des #Importes #lebenswichtiger #Güter aus den #USA;
#Entstehung #politischer und #sozialer #Verhältnisse für #Institutionen
Ralph #Bollmann #FAS; S.17, 19.04.2020 #Brauchen wir einen neuen #Marshallplan?
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Ein #bislang kaum #bekannter #Passus im #EU #Vertrag solle #genutzt werden, um #sich 100 #Milliarden #Euro zu #leihen.
#Zweck von #Wirtschaftshilfe im #Plan nach George C. #Marshall: #Weltwirtschaft #wiederherstellen: #Weiche #Währungen #Europas #verhinderten #Möglichkeit des #Importes #lebenswichtiger #Güter aus den #USA;
#Entstehung #politischer und #sozialer #Verhältnisse für #Institutionen
Ralph #Bollmann #FAS; S.17, 19.04.2020 #Brauchen wir einen neuen #Marshallplan?
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Oldie but Goodie (1998 writing about Jubilee 2000!) I'm still in touch with people I met thanks to the Jubilee Kyushu movement. One was a university student then an a mother of two daughters now. She's been fighting the good fight all that time, 12 years ago she was helping a Thai environmental journalist tour Japan, meeting the places and people fighting against the damage from dams and for reparations to the victims of pollution disasters. Now she's fighting for the rivers and mountain people against more wasteful dams... It's fascinating to think how movements might not effect an immediate change in the one issue that brings people together at one time, but people go on struggling against injustice and try to help each other out...
There are other relevant precedents. When the U.S. took over Cuba 100 years ago it cancelled Cuba’s debt to Spain on the grounds that the burden was “imposed upon the people of Cuba without their consent and by force of arms.” Such debts were later called “odious debt” by legal scholarship, “not an obligation for the nation” but the “debt of the power that has incurred it,” while the creditors who “have committed a hostile act with regard to the people” can expect no payment from the victims. Rejecting a British challenge to Costa Rican laws cancelling the debt of the former dictator to the Royal Bank of Canada, the arbitrator — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft — concluded that the Bank lent the money for no “legitimate use,” so its claim for payment “must fail.” The logic extends readily to much of today’s debt: “odious debt” with no legal or moral standing, imposed upon people without their consent, often serving to repress them and enrich their masters. ^1
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The picture generalizes, and breaks little new ground. A study of the global economy points out that “defaults on foreign bonds by US railroads in the 1890s were on the same scale as current developing country debt problems.”5 Britain, France, and Italy defaulted on US debts in the 1930s. After World War II, there was reported to be heavy flow of capital from Europe to the United States. Cooperative controls could have kept the funds at home for post-war reconstruction, but, some analysts allege, policymakers preferred to have wealthy Europeans send their capital to New York banks, with the costs of reconstruction transferred to US taxpayers. The Marshall Plan approximately covered the “mass movements of nervous flight capital” that leading economists had predicted. ^2- https://chomsky.info/19980515/
While searching for this link I just saw it became a chapter in Rogue States. A quick glance makes me think it may have been rearranged and edited a bit: and has more sources too!
^1 Patricia Adams, Odious Debts (Earthscan, 1991); Lissakers, Banks, Borrowers. Witness for Peace, A Bankrupt Future: The Human Cost of Nicaragua’s Debt (WFP, 2000); Envio (Managua, Nicaragua: UCA), 18.220, Nov. 1999.
^2 Eric Helleiner, States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994).
#Jubilee2000 #JubileeKyushuu #MarshallPlan #CapitalFlight #OdiousDebt #OdiousDebts #RogueStates by #NoamChomsky
#^Jubilee 2000The Noam Chomsky Website.
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„Ein langsamer, aber qualvoller Niedergang“
Die Ankündigung von #Personenkontrollen an den deutschen Grenzen ab kommendem Montag löst bei der EU-Kommisson sowie in mehreren Nachbarstaaten der #Bundesrepublik Unmut aus. In #Brüssel wird darauf hingewiesen, dass Kontrollen an den #Schengen-#Binnengrenzen nur als „absolute Ausnahme“ erlaubt sind; ihre umfassende Einführung durch die Bundesregierung und die fehlende zeitliche Begrenzung deuten darauf hin, dass sie keine Ausnahme sind. Zu den angekündigten Zurückweisungen heißt es in #Österreich, man sei nicht bereit, Flüchtlinge zurückzunehmen, falls Deutschland ihnen #völkerrechtswidrig das Stellen eines #Asylantrags verweigere. Experten urteilen, die neuen Grenzkontrollen verstießen offen gegen EU-Recht; #Berlin handle, „als wäre die #AfD (schon) an der Macht“. #Polens Ministerpräsident Donald #Tusk kündigt „dringende Konsultationen“ mit anderen Nachbarstaaten der Bundesrepublik an. Während bereits vom Ende des Schengen-Systems die Rede ist, warnt Ex-EZB-Präsident Mario #Draghi in einer aktuellen Analyse, wolle die EU ihren „qualvollen Niedergang“ vermeiden, dann müsse sie bis zu 800 Milliarden Euro investieren – ein Mehrfaches des #Marshallplans.
Weiterlesen:
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9681Via https://mastodon.trueten.de/@gfp/113120997149583709 #Asylrecht ist ein #Grundrecht #Asyl #refugees
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I caught the last part of Bill Grant performing as Gen. George C. Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe's economy after WWII. He was very well-received.
#Chautauqua #MountainLakePark #Maryland #GenGeorgeCMarshall #MarshallPlan
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EU needs ‘Marshall Plan’ for Moldova and Ukraine, Sandu says https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement-neighbourhood/news/eu-needs-marshall-plan-for-moldova-and-ukraine-sandu-says/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Economy #EUUkraine #MaiaSandu #MarshallPlan #Moldova
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EU needs ‘Marshall Plan’ for Moldova and Ukraine, Sandu says https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement-neighbourhood/news/eu-needs-marshall-plan-for-moldova-and-ukraine-sandu-says/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Economy #EUUkraine #MaiaSandu #MarshallPlan #Moldova
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#History #ForeignPolicy #AmericanAidReview: “Les Origines du plan Marshall”
https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/news/detail/9378
#AnnieLacroixRiz analyses the “Myth of the #US American Aid” to #Europe following the #SecondWorldWar and the path to the imposition of #US hegemony.
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#LacroixRiz’s analysis, as meticulous as always, sheds light on the years 1941 to 1946 – the period, in which the #UnitedStates imposed its “rise to global hegemony.” The French General #PaulAndréDoyen, head of the #French delegation to the #GermanArmisticeCommission since September 6, 1940, had already predicted the #GermanReich’s demise back in July 1941: the #UnitedStates, the actual victor of the #FirstWorldWar, would emerge from the Second even more powerful, while the European countries, which once could still have been its rival, would be seriously weakened. The world “would have to bow to the will of the #UnitedStates over the coming decades.” Doyen was right.
During the period mentioned above, the #UnitedStates laid the necessary groundwork – not only militarily, but above all economically. Important milestones, such as the #LandLeaseAct, which regulated – beginning in 1941 – the delivery of strategic combat material to allied countries, officially on a leasing basis; then the results of #BrettonWoods in July 1944, which ensured the dominance of the US-dollar; and ultimately, particularly for #France, the #BlumByrnesAgreements of May 1946, compelling access for #US cultural products, particularly films, to the French cultural market. All these milestones decisively contributed to paving the way for #US-American products and capital into #Europe. The #MarshallPlan was merely the final cherry on the cake. It further increased sales of #US products to #WestEuropean countries, binding them even more closely to the #USA, ultimately securing #US hegemony.
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@GottaLaff @willbunch
Germany did not "GET" Hitler either until it was tooooooooooo late.
GRRRRRRRR
What is the USA #Oligarchy thinking? They won't be touched by #Fascism? Without the #MarshallPlan the German #Oligarchy would have starved just like the the rest of us.