Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Whatever happened to the Common Market?" video.

  1. The use of treaties. . In the run up to the 1952 election, in the US, Robert A Taft was the front runner in the Republican Party. In fact, they called him "Mr. Republican," one of the last true conservatives. His stance was anti-war, and anti-foreign entanglement, thus, anti-treaty. He wasn't much for FDR's New Deal socialism, and didn't want the UN either. . Now, the Democrats couldn't have this, especially the progressives, nor could the progressive Republicans, of which Dewey of New York was one. Dewey had just lost the last election to Truman, too. What did Dewey do? He approached another progressive, who was an Independent, and that was Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war hero. Dewey asked Ike to run against Taft as a Republican in the GOP primary. Worse, they selected Richard Nixon as the VP, to run with Ike, who was another progressive. The Ike and Nixon ticket won the primary by the skin of their teeth, and went on to win the main election. The GOP was irrevocably changed forever in 1952. . Ike promoted the UN, and thus, the many treaties after that. NATO pulled the US into many conflicts that it should have never been in. . The moral of the story is, that progressive politicians found a way to skirt Democracy, and that was by treaties, which the public has no say in.
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  2.  @frankvanhooft3927  You seem to think that the US had an imperial hand in creating NATO after the Treaty of Dunkirk. All of it was created under Truman at the British Government's request. The Marshall Plan of April 1947, which was created one month after the Treaty of Dunkirk, was used to bring it all about. . "Despite the frequent charges that NATO was a product of America’s imperial reach after World War II, it was Europe’s initiative—not that of the United States—which opened the way to NATO. Led by Britain’s Foreign Minister, Ernest Bevin, and France’s counterpart, Georges Bidault, Western Europeans feared that their efforts to collaborate in a future defense organization could not succeed without American involvement. Their economies could not be rebuilt without massive American support, and their defense capabilities could not cope with the aggressive Soviet Union without an American commitment to counterbalance the Communist adversary." https://law.emory.edu/eilr/content/volume-34/issue-special/articles/origins-nato-1948-1949.html . Correspondence between Britain and the US: . Inverchapel correspondence to the US Sec. of State, about Mr. Bevin’s views on the formation of a Western Union, now declassified: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d3 . The Chargé in London (Gallman) to the US Secretary of State asking for US approval, declassified: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d1 . Spaak was also seeking Washington's assistance: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/d2 . All released documents: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v03/ch1
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