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To: ig who wrote (678250)	2/27/2019 12:28:25 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793895

I think looking at America with a weary eye was (and remains) part of the general culture. I still remember people making faces when they looked at green US dollars back in the late 70's in Belgium, France and elsewhere. It gave them pleasure that the USD back at that time was in the crapper. (Which, in turn, gave me pleasure a few years later, when you would get nice 3 Deutschmarks for a buck and everything was oh so cheap... lol). The very idea of the EU was advanced, in part, as a way to counterbalance the two big idiotic superpowers, the US and the USSR - who kept spoiling for a fight, and were certain to destroy Europe in the process. I think they were actually right about that back then... not that the EU did for them - or could have done - anything good in this respect.