History

Submitted by Mogens (Denmark), Feb 8, 2009 at 13:35

Has any of you guys ever read history?

A few facts. Nazi germany declared war on the USA just after Pearl harbour.

The amount of Europeans killed in wars, revolutions, civil wars, epidemics, starvation ect in the first 50 years of the 20th century amounts to about 100 million. Of these about 45-50 million in the WW2. The total american losses in WW2 was about 300.000 in both Europe an the far east.

7 of 8 german soldiers killed in WW2 was killed in Russia. Of corse the US-engagement was important and vital, but....

As former german foreign minister Joscha Fischer remarked "Europeans are not from Venus, we are the survivors from Mars."

Europeans don`t hate Americans; actually they are our cousins, but there are traits in their society, that we don't like, as there are some in ours, that we don't like. So let's agree to disagree and remember, that the EU and the USA has a larger combined trade, political, economic and scientific cooperation than any of us has with any other region in the world.

Together we count for 57% of the total production and 70% of the science in the world, and the amount of trade is 1.8 billion USD pr day across the Atlantic. The Investment from USA to the EU is about 840 billion USD, and the investment from the EU in the USA is about 855 billion USD, and that is far more that they has invested in all other regions of the world combined. 25% of the total economy in both regions has some transatlantic aspects. So actually we are very interdependent.

Lets stop the nagging and focus on cooperation instead. We like the way we do things, and you like the way you do things, and why isn't that just okay?

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