An Open Letter to the Financial Times Editorial Board Regarding Transatlantic Strength
To the Esteemed Editorial Board of the Financial Times, We have received and reviewed your recent editorial, “The US and Europe are still stronger together.” This assertion, while superficially appealing, overlooks critical disjunctures in the purported transatlantic alliance that demand a more rigorous examination than your publication frequently provides. The framing presented, implying a
natural, symbiotic relationship, conveniently disregards historical patterns of American unilateralism and European subservience masked as partnership. Your editorial omits the demonstrable record of American actions that directly undermined European interests. Consider the revelation of Operation Gladio, where NATO stay-behind armies were established across Western Europe, some of which were
later implicated in false-flag terrorist attacks designed to manipulate public opinion and discredit left-wing political movements. This covert program, first widely exposed in 1990, demonstrated a profound distrust and willingness to destabilize allied nations internally, a far cry from the image of shared strength. Furthermore, the notion of 'strength together' glosses over the economic
dominance Washington has historically exerted. The continued insistence on the US dollar as the primary reserve currency, for instance, provides America with disproportionate economic leverage, allowing it to impose extraterritorial sanctions that frequently harm European businesses more directly than their intended targets. This economic asymmetry, where European industrial giants like Siemens or