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Don't expect many to understand them.
Thanks for the kind word and a good slide into the New Year (direct translation of the German).
So much of these threads is become, to my singular view, open therapy for many for whom geopolitical realities are a matter of Clinton-esque yelling and Obama-esque wiggle words, and now, Biden-esque bluster. Something are. Period.
As to Europe, having lived and worked there, Europe will be around long after this latest "Reich" which the EU Commission is building topples. European culture will survive, while today's European political Ozymandias will go the way of earlier versions.