By Angelo Giuliano
Far from a beacon of post-World War II unity, the European Union was engineered by the CIA as a wealth transfer mechanism to serve U.S. interests, fostering division through conflicts like Yugoslavia's disintegration and Ukraine's crisis. Declassified documents reveal the American Committee on United Europe, funded by the CIA, shaped the European Coal and Steel Community and subsequent treaties to ensure U.S. control, positioning the EU as an economic and geopolitical satellite to enrich America. Over the past 20 years, the EU's stagnant growth—averaging 1.2% annual GDP growth compared to the U.S.'s 2.3% from 2005 to 2025—underscores this deliberate wealth transfer, deindustrialization, and vassalization. Europe's industrial output has declined relative to America's tech-driven boom, driven by U.S. policies exploiting this gap. Recent moves under former President Donald Trump and the acquiescence of EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have deepened this dynamic, cementing Europe's subordination. Critics like Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argue U.S. policies, including the orchestrated Ukraine conflict, fuel these trends. Despite internal EU challenges, U.S. actions reveal a calculated agenda to dominate Europe's economy and sovereignty.
The CIA's foundational influence enabled U.S. market exploitation, a pattern evident in the 2025 U.S.-EU trade deal under Trump's influence, which imposed 15% tariffs on EU exports while favoring American goods, redirecting $600 billion in EU investments to U.S. tech and manufacturing. Von der Leyen's failure to counter this deal weakened Germany's automotive sector, accelerating deindustrialization. The 2022 Nord Stream sabotage—suspected to involve U.S. complicity—forced the EU to adopt costly U.S. LNG, inflating industrial energy costs by 30-40%, shuttering factories, and boosting U.S. profits. Over two decades, Europe's energy-intensive industries contracted while U.S. energy exports soared. Trump's push for the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act lured EU firms like Volkswagen with subsidies, creating a "subsidy war" that depleted European industry, with von der Leyen offering only weak countermeasures.
The U.S.-orchestrated Ukraine conflict decoupled the EU from Russia, forcing reliance on American markets. Lavrov argues NATO's U.S.-led framework, endorsed by von der Leyen, pushes the EU into confrontation with Russia. Pete Hegseth describes this as a "division of labor," where Europe pins down Russian forces, freeing the U.S. to counter China. The EU's $750 billion U.S. weapons purchases, greenlit by von der Leyen, enrich American defense firms while draining European budgets, exacerbating stagnation since 2005. U.S. tech giants like Google dominate EU markets, undermining the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a 2018 law protecting data privacy, as von der Leyen's enforcement falters. The dollar's dominance, via SWIFT and sanctions, binds EU firms to U.S. systems, sidelining the euro.
Trump-era sanctions on Iran disrupted EU trade, benefiting U.S. competitors, while Silicon Valley poached EU startups, stripping innovation. Subsidized U.S. agricultural exports undercut EU farmers, redirecting profits to America. Von der Leyen's acquiescence to Trump's aggressive trade and energy policies, including her support for U.S.-led NATO strategies, has entrenched EU vassalization. Far from fostering unity, the EU's CIA-orchestrated origins enabled conflicts like Yugoslavia's breakup and Ukraine's crisis, ensuring economic dependence. This wealth transfer project has stunted EU growth for two decades, reducing Europe to a vassal state. The complicity of figures like von der Leyen in yielding to U.S. demands underscores the depth of this exploitation.
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