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→Free trade as a Cold War weapon
The post-[[World War II]] free trade movement really dates from the mid 1950s and creation of the European Common Market, which evolved into the European Union with its own [[parliament]] by the 1980s. To compete with the burgeoning economic power of the European Union, reducing North American trade barriers was finalized in the [[NAFTA]] agreement by 1996. Cold War politics cannot be overlooked in understanding how the modern free trade movement was built on a house of cards.
The post-[[World War II]] free trade movement really dates from the mid 1950s and creation of the European Common Market, which evolved into the European Union with its own [[parliament]] by the 1980s. To compete with the burgeoning economic power of the European Union, reducing North American trade barriers was finalized in the [[NAFTA]] agreement by 1996. Cold War politics cannot be overlooked in understanding how the modern free trade movement was built on a house of cards.
The artificial Europesn Union superstate was built without a defense budget - the U.S. taxpayer picking up the tab. Meantime, the violent worldwide Marxist revolution aimed at exporting Soviet weapons from Russia to Cuba, to [[Nicaragua]], to [[El Salvador]] and all [[Central America]], and eventually Mexico and the United States to overthrow the capitalist international order, liberate the oppressed masses, and establish [[Socialism]]. Raising living standards in Mexico via free trade and NAFTA was seen as a way to counter Marxist revolutionary ideology, Soviet [[foreign policy]], and compete with the Euro zone.
The artificial European Union superstate was built without a defense budget - the U.S. taxpayer picking up the tab. Meantime, the violent worldwide Marxist revolution aimed at exporting Soviet weapons from Russia to Cuba, to [[Nicaragua]], to [[El Salvador]] and all [[Central America]], and eventually Mexico and the United States to overthrow the capitalist international order, liberate the oppressed masses, and establish [[Socialism]]. Raising living standards in Mexico via free trade and NAFTA was seen as a way to counter Marxist revolutionary ideology, Soviet [[foreign policy]], and compete with the Euro zone.
===The disconnect===
===The disconnect===