Martin Wolf
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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This is really important.
We have to be something completely different.
But the most important, we need to unite, but we're still states.
We have different histories, languages, cultures, and so forth.
We can't get rid of that.
So we must cooperate.
We want someone to look after us.
That was the U.S.
We don't trust ourselves.
We've lost trust in ourselves.
Very important.
The British leased this because they got through it.
So they decided that they would, they feel we can be outside it.
We're an island.
But the others, the enemies are just across the border, everywhere.
Go back to that, the end of the world.
So we left everything to Uncle Sam because he was a kind, generous uncle.
We made a few obvious mistakes, but basically we trusted it.
That's how we got to where we are.
This is my 10 minute history of Europe.