VDH: Old Europe Again

The Sage of the San Joaquin, Victor Davis Hanson, writes for National Review that what's currently happening in Europe is nothing new, but rather something quite old and sad. He equates what the EU today attempts with the Congress of Vienna, and in another way with the conquests of both Napoleon and Hitler. See his conclusion:

For all the promises of European-born fascism, communism and socialism, the result is always the same: disunion, acrimony and infighting. That schizophrenia is what we should expect from dozens of cultures and histories squeezed into too small a continent full of lots of bright -- and quite proud -- people. Every new Europe always ends up as old Europe.

By our heritage we are linked to Europe like two prisoners handcuffed together; their problems inevitably become ours.