Nor reduced taxes, and perhaps even the reduced salaries (don't your public servants actually get paid decently over there? It's in the US that they get shafted as far as I know)
for the US, NATO was never about economics. It was a bribe to get them into our security plans. They would up their spending if NATO did something more constructive
Well imperialism as in actual colonization and conquest is over, but a new era of neo-colonialism is in full swing with large Western companies exploiting the third world for profit
It happens inside Europe, too. Germany takes advantage of Hungary, Romania, etc. A Romanian lawmaker wrote a good op-ed on it recently, detailing the capital flows
situation in Europe vis-a-vis Greece and similar countries was predictable. It was the situation Germany set up with the EU and the Eurozone, because those countries can no longer devalue to handle their domestic debt and capital flows
```Clotilde Armand is a Romanian MEP with the Renew Europe group. She is a member of the European Parliament’s budgets committee.```
```Between 2010 and 2016, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia received the equivalent of 2 percent to 4 percent of their GDP in EU funds. But the flow of capital exiting these countries over the same period was between 4 percent and close to 8 percent of GDP.```
