And this ties into the situation in Ukraine. The candidate favored by the EU, Poland, and Soros - Yushchenko - wants to pull Ukraine's troops from Iraq. Yanukovich wants to keep their troops in.
It also ties into the spread of the EU. Watch how they've spread. Those nations whom they couldn't directly bribe they gave revolutions or civil wars to, makes it easier to collect up the pieces into the maw of the iron fanged beast. They don't even pretend to want to stay just in Europe anymore. Now they claim Georgia, Armenia, Azerbajan and Turkey too. Once they have control of those, they can put direct pressure on the Gulf States and control the Gibraltor straits, choking US oil commerse. They will also choke westward US-Russian oil commerce.
As long as America is hip deep in Iraq, all it can do is sit and watch passively as the Reich rises up. This time there are not partisans in the hills to slow the Reich down. If the EU wants a strong military to match ours, they can build one in under 10 years, while we are leveraged to the hilt and sending all our industry to China.