The Interimperial Rivalry Between Europe and the United States

The United States is seeking to seize a much larger share of these resources for itself by requiring Europe, for example, to purchase expensive US energy rather than Russian energy. The U.S. has always wanted to essentially contain or roll back European imperialism in order to open up the world economy to itself. That has always been its goal. It's continuing to attempt this even though, of course, it is farther away from realization than ever before,. But, you know, we're basically now on to discussing Europe and I want to say a couple of things about that.