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Kevin Kruse with a history lesson that debunks Trump's "deeply stupid" idea that EU was created to screw over America. The full article at link below is worth reading. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that the president seems to be baffled by the basic use of quotation marks and capitalizations, we should note that this characterization is 100% backwards. At every stage of its creation and evolution, the European Union was designed to facilitate American foreign policy goals and to protect American interests from the pressures of the Soviet Union. Its origins and evolution were, in fact, closely tied to the greatest foreign policy initiative of the post-World War II era – the Marshall Plan. The idea that Western Europe should be encouraged and enabled to work together along economic, cultural and, yes, political lines was firmly part of the American foreign policy consensus in the postwar era. George Marshall, one of the great generals of the American war effort and Harry Truman's Secretary of State, insisted that helping Europe in this way amounted to helping the United States. "It is logical," he told Congress, "that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of ordinary economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace." ... And just as Democratic President Harry Truman saw the strengthening of European economic and political ties as in America's best interest, so too did Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower ... and every president who followed them in the twentieth century, as the European community became stronger and more united, just as American policymakers had long hoped. ... At every step of the way, the European Union was understood – by Americans and by everyone else – as a measure that was promoted and perfected with the full support of the United States of America. The idea that its purpose was to "screw" America over instead of helping it out is so deeply stupid that, of course, Donald Trump believes it. -- disq.us