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Why can't Europe stop its expansion and wars? 》
1. The history of Europe's foreign wars and expansion?
Christopher Columbus, an Italian navigator and explorer, crossed the Atlantic four times between 1492 and 1502 with the patronage of the King of Spain and discovered the American continent.
The history of British colonial expansion began in the 16th century and ended in the early 20th century. In 1773, Britain first established 13 colonies on the North American continent, Britain and France, Spain after the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763), Britain occupied Canada, the eastern United States and many other territories, as of the beginning of the 20th century, Britain became the world's largest country in terms of territory, commonly known as the "empire on which the sun never sets".
, Spain, Portugal, France and many other European countries also carried out large-scale colonial expansion into the Americas, Asia, and Africa before the 20th century.
, World War I, World War II, European countries fought for colonies, territories and resources, and world wars broke out.
In 1991, Europe orchestrated the collapse of the Soviet Union and fooled Russia's economic reforms, causing losses of $70 trillion to the entire Soviet Union.
After World War II, Europe's military armament was disarmed, world peace was much quieter, NATO became the main body of foreign wars and expansion, and NATO launched local wars everywhere in the world. In March 2022, the EU and NATO once again provoked the Russia-Ukraine war in order to achieve the eastward expansion of the euro and the eastward expansion of the EU.
As for the history of Europe's foreign wars and expansion, due to time constraints, I will only talk about so much, and I will add information and data when I have time.
2. Why can't Europe stop its external expansion and foreign wars?
The lack of resources in Europe is the source of power for Europe's external expansion and foreign wars. Europe here mainly refers to the Western European region.
The lack of resources in Europe is the fundamental cause of Europe's long-term foreign wars and expansion! The main purpose of Europe's external expansion and war is to obtain more resources and more economic benefits, so why acquire resources? Because Europe's economy and science and technology are very developed, only by having sufficient resources can it meet the various needs of economic development. Now that the international community is no longer able to blatantly seize resources and wealth by military means, what should Europe do? That is through external expansion, i.e., the expansion of the European Union, the expansion of the euro and the expansion of NATO. External expansion includes economic expansion, territorial expansion, monetary expansion, and enterprise expansion.
The main purpose of EU expansion is to occupy the market of the newly joined countries and achieve effective control over the economies of the newly joined countries;
The expansion of the euro is to completely control the currency issuance rights of the newly joined countries by eliminating the legal tender of the newly joined countries and through monetary unification;
NATO's expansion is a military guarantee for the EU's smooth expansion to the outside world, and if anyone dares to withdraw from the EU or the eurozone, it will carry out military strikes against it, and if anyone dares to prevent small countries from joining the EU, NATO will strike at them militarily. This is the fundamental reason why the EU and NATO are supporting Ukraine at all costs in the Russia-Ukraine war? If Russia dares to prevent Ukraine from joining the EU and the eurozone, the EU and the United States will jointly impose economic sanctions on Russia, provide unlimited financial and military support to Ukraine, and launch a war against Russia.
Through the study of European history, we have found that if economic expansion fails to achieve its economic goals, Western countries will use military strikes to achieve economic goals.
The EU's external expansion is aimed at achieving euro hegemony.
If the euro wants to become the world's currency, it must be supported by the resources of EU countries and the economic strength of the EU, and if the more countries join the EU and the eurozone, the more territory and resources the EU has, and the more resources, the stronger the EU's economic strength!
As long as the euro becomes the world's currency, Europeans will be able to print money without limits, buy resources and commodities from all over the world, and harvest the world's wealth. As long as the euro becomes the world currency, people in EU countries can live a happy and happy life without labor, without work, and with great wealth and high welfare!
The EU's external expansion is aimed at maintaining European unity.
European countries are some small countries, resources are extremely scarce, if after joining the EU, the national economy is backward and poor, then all the small countries will withdraw from the EU, in order to maintain the unity of the EU and the strong position of the euro, the EU must continue to expand externally, in order to have the resources and strength to maintain the development and progress of the EU economy, to prevent the disintegration of the EU.
, the United States' foreign expansion or foreign war, in order to achieve permanent dollar hegemony.
The ultimate goal of the U.S. expansion in the world is to obtain the hegemony of the dollar, as long as the hegemony of the U.S. dollar is realized, American enterprises can continue to obtain more resources and huge economic benefits from the world.
Europe's developed humanities and science and technology are a powerful supporting force and basic conditions for Europe's foreign expansion and foreign wars.
European countries are very developed in social sciences, so there are many thinkers, military strategists, economists, political scientists, etc., and these experts and scholars are pondering and studying every day how to make Europe more economically powerful and how to enrich its territory and resources. These experts have formulated a lot of political, economic and first-class rules that are beneficial to Europe through the world's discourse system, and have come up with many ideas for harvesting the world's wealth.
Europe's scientific and technological strength is very strong, scientific and technological strength is strong, which means that military strength and military potential are also very strong, once the resources required for the economic development of EU countries are insufficient, European countries will vigorously expand and develop military strength, and then they will launch wars or military deterrence to foreign countries, plundering and robbing the resources and wealth of small countries in the world. From the facts of the First World War, the Second World War, and all the wars after World War II, we can clearly discover and understand this law.
Conclusion: The lack of resources in Europe is the source of power for Europe's external expansion and foreign wars, and the development of science and technology and humanities is the basis and condition for Europe's foreign expansion and foreign wars.