Thursday, July 21, 2011

Europe on the Brink

Europe hasn't been looking healthy lately, what with economic problems in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Italy. Author George Kerevan believes he sees sufficient forces to tear the European Union asunder, in this article for The Scotsman.

Kerevan sees Germany wanting to go play with Russia and China, while France is on the brink of political chaos. Meanwhile the U.K. remains on the periphery or goes its own way. He says one thing of which I wasn't aware, namely that Communism is popular in the farming areas of Europe.

A major purpose of the EU was to keep the peoples of Europe from going to war with each other every two decades. If the U.S. should decide to stop defending Europe via NATO, do any of these "nations" now have the political will to raise and equip a modern army? I doubt it.