Chapter 1654: Made a big loss

To put it all in, if you want to effectively rescue the governments of the "EU" countries that have fallen into the double crisis of debt and exchange rate collapse, in fact, you just need to do a good job of "increasing revenue and reducing expenditure."
However, everyone understands the truth, and it is extremely difficult to do well.
Let me talk about open source first.
The reason why old Europe can maintain a high-welfare social system for a long time is because the dividends of its early industrialization have not been exhausted, and it has extended the enjoyment as much as possible through various tools such as monopoly and patents. The time for this bonus. However, there was a Japanese country earlier, and then the Four Little Dragons in Asia, and then the entire Southeast Asia joined in, and finally, even more so, an oriental dragon began to exert its strength...
The rise of Asia, especially East Asia, is all-encompassing and not limited to low-end manufacturing. This has caused a great impact on the economy of old Europe. In the past, one or two key technologies can be used to do whatever they want. Good projects for squeezing high profits are becoming less and less, and let Europeans who are used to enjoying it go to knit sweaters and sew shirts stitch by stitch in exchange for how much hard money? It’s impossible to think about it—well, there are no absolutes. There are still a few Europeans doing these things, but they call it "artisan spirit" or "all handcrafted". It is the highest-end luxury. Collecting IQ tax and selling at sky-high prices...
So, in the current international competitive environment, it is really difficult to open source. It is already a great thing to be able to keep the current job.
But it is more difficult than increasing revenue, but it is throttling.
To reduce expenditure, then government expenditures must be cut. However, in European welfare society, one of the major items of government expenditure is social public welfare. Do you want to cut this? There is still the old saying, "It is easy to change from frugality to luxury, and it is difficult to change from extravagance to frugality." European people, regardless of whether your government is difficult or not, dare to move the cheese that has already reached your personal bowl, and walk on the streets every minute to show you. It is common for the inconvenient "street liuzi" to take the opportunity to organize a few "fireworks show", "0 yuan purchase" and so on, which are normal operations.
The most critical question is, are the votes really gone?
Therefore, nothing can be reduced to reduce welfare. This is the unspoken rule and consensus followed by all European leaders...Of course, there are some people who want to challenge this unspoken rule, such as our handsome president of Gaul. In order to make up for the fiscal deficit, an attempt to increase fuel tax in the name of "environmental protection" in 2018 triggered the "yellow vest movement" that has lasted for more than two years and still has no hope of quelling.
By the way, Brother Xiao Ma only intends to impose an additional tax of 7 Euro cents per liter of gasoline, which is less than 60 cents in RMB, which is more than 40% tax on gasoline prices in China.
Welfare cannot be reduced, so what can be reduced?
Looking horizontally and vertically, looking left and right, ah, it seems that there is only one item of expenditure that can be reduced, and there shouldn't be any major problems with the reduction-military expenditure!
Anyway, the grass on the grave of that aggressive bear is already three feet high, shouldn't it be possible to cheat the corpse?
That's how old Europe's armed forces were depleted.
However, it’s easy to lose arms, but it’s difficult to recover. For example, Hans after the merger of the East and the West, the soldiers serving in the army not only get to get off work, but also check in. Link... This is also the fundamental reason why a group of political elites in old Europe wanted to do something in Kosovo, but found that they could not deal with the power of the whole of Europe and had to drag the countrymen into the water.
Originally, this group of political elites in Europe wanted to drag the Americans into the water. Then, if the Americans used to be the original faction, the military expenses must be his family. But they forgot that it is Creighton who is now in power in the United States.
Unlike the old Bush, Clayton is a recognized master in economics. Under his promotion, the domestic industrial structure of the United States has undergone a major adjustment and established an absolute leading position in the semiconductor and Internet fields. With the success in these high-tech fields, the Americans successfully realized the transformation and upgrading of domestic industries and established a new hegemony-digital hegemony.
A master of economics, when looking at problems, his starting point is often different. For example, President Creighton once also hoped to resolve the Kosovo conflict by means of negotiation. After all, if you use force to intervene, you must fight. A war is costly, but when he realized that a battle in Kosovo was a contract in the heart of Europe and could have a significant impact on the euro, he did not hesitate to change his course and not only joined the war, It also took advantage of the powerful military and political influence of the United States to take the command of the NATO coalition forces of course.
And there is one more thing. A president who understands economics will have a better abacus. This is especially true in the current war. The Kosovo issue is a European issue. It is also the Europeans that strongly urge the US to intervene, and we Americans make the most out of it. , Weapons and equipment consume the most, so how to calculate this war cost? Can't we still let the United States bear the bulk? This is also inappropriate, right?
Therefore, after a round of bargaining within NATO, the Americans only contributed a small part of the confirmed share of war expenses, and most of it was shared by other NATO member states.
You only need to study carefully the list of NATO member states other than the United States and you will find that this list of countries overlaps with the list of EU member states extremely.
In other words, the funding for launching this Kosovo war was actually shared by most of the EU member states.
So the problem came.
Originally, these countries shared a little bit. This war, which was not as large as expected, was supported. However, the situation has undergone a fundamental change. On the one hand, each country has fallen into debt due to its own debt problems. Due to financial difficulties, the operation of the huge war machine cannot be supported for a long time, and even the budget originally prepared for this war may not be allocated on time; on the other hand, because the course of this war has not been as planned. Instead, because the enemy is unexpectedly tenacious and supported by strong foreign aid, it is very likely to move in the most undesirable direction-to become a so-called "war quagmire", a battle forever Regional conflicts that could not win the final victory have become a long-term financial burden for European countries, just like Afkhan did to the former Soviet Russia.
What's more terrifying, and what Europeans are most worried about is that a region in the heart of Europe that has been shrouded in war and conflict for a long time will inevitably become a breeding ground for all kinds of extreme terrorist forces!
At this time, Europe finally has a "political elite" awakened: I rely on it, and count the left and right. This seems to be a big loss?
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