The foreign secretary’s Mansion House address last week excited media coverage for her pledge to drive Russia out of Ukrainian territory. She underscored this aspiration with specific promises of expanded support for those fighting Vladimir Putin’s invaders.
However, the section of Liz Truss’s speech which was most radical and far-reaching focused on economics. How and when the fighting in Ukraine ends, Truss seems to have concluded we need to rethink the entire international, institutional infrastructure to better advance liberalism and capitalism across the globe. She explicitly called for the creation of an “economic Nato”.
– If only an economic NATO exists? I would think the British foreign secretary could name such an organisation already, but she can’t bring herself to say it’s name when attending their meetings.
So… the EU, essentially?
Congrats on figuring out what the European Union is.
Nope, we don’t need USA-Canada etc in the EU(which is that)
So the EU but with dominated by anglo-saxons. Thanks but no.
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No thanks, EU have far better customer protections than USA. We don’t need chlorinated chicken in Europe.
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The foreign secretary’s Mansion House address last week excited media coverage for her pledge to drive Russia out of Ukrainian territory. She underscored this aspiration with specific promises of expanded support for those fighting Vladimir Putin’s invaders.
However, the section of Liz Truss’s speech which was most radical and far-reaching focused on economics. How and when the fighting in Ukraine ends, Truss seems to have concluded we need to rethink the entire international, institutional infrastructure to better advance liberalism and capitalism across the globe. She explicitly called for the creation of an “economic Nato”.
– If only an economic NATO exists? I would think the British foreign secretary could name such an organisation already, but she can’t bring herself to say it’s name when attending their meetings.
So… the EU, essentially?
Congrats on figuring out what the European Union is.
Nope, we don’t need USA-Canada etc in the EU(which is that)
So the EU but with dominated by anglo-saxons. Thanks but no.
Paywall
No thanks, EU have far better customer protections than USA. We don’t need chlorinated chicken in Europe.