&gt; some altruistic &quot;we love Europe&quot; plan.<p>Nobody said anything about altruism, or &#x27;loving Europe&#x27;. I don&#x27;t know where you&#x27;re getting either of those ideas from.<p>&gt; Of course it&#x27;s easier to bask in American exceptionalism<p>This is hardly a claim of American exceptionalism. It&#x27;s a non-normative observation about the existing structure of the markets. It is not a statement that this is how it always must be, or that this is how it should be. It is merely a description of what currently is.