<< Maybe I'm misreading all of this from a Biblical standpoint, but I see this as the genesis of the East vs. West confrontation spoken about in Revelations. >>
Why not? I'm with you.
I spend more than 99% of my time abroad, am continuously exposed to it and can attest that the Euro-peon Neo-Soviet's hesperophobic anti-Americanism is no less froth and foam-flecked that is that of the more visible barbarians -- it's just [A little] better hidden. And where Euro-peons are concerned our worrisome collective denial is stronger.
As the recent actions of the french and german governments make clear, though, only the Biblical basis of the individual tattered remnants of the rapidly-being-swept-aside [By the new manifest] Laws of the Brussels-based Neo-Soviet's satellite states keeps the increasingly squalidly-secular EU -- in some quarters, from being moved from the "one-time aquaintance" column into that for ememies.
[Although not here, I've already long-ago moved it]
Manifesto [Forty years of signing off on the manifest moved my hand]