Posted on 05/11/2008 1:09:38 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy
This is nothing but a coup d'état, and I don't think it can be stopped non-violently unless there is a sudden economic crash and several countries leave the eurozone.
The EU has given bureaucracy a new meaning.
This is also a glimpse at how a world government will operate.
Stockpile weapons while you can.
I couldn’t agree with you more: this is a coup d’etat staged by bureaucrats, rather than colonels. The nations of Europe are no longer functioning democracies. It is truly a time when the United States stands alone. Our liberties will come under assault in the next few years by these purveyors of “enlightened” despotism. It’s time to pull the plug on NATO and let the Europeans fend for themselves.
If that were to happen, the EU would just pull a Serbia and bring them into line. Afterall, Maastrich was modified so the military could go on the offensive. Hillary or Hussein would be happy to assist against European dissenters.
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It is hard to believe the Europeans are so willing to give up their sovereignty so easily.
That is until I recalled how most of them opened their arms to Nazi Germany.
Ben, I watch folks laugh at Europe and wonder why they can’t see that this is precisely where we are headed.
We’re headed for some terrible times IMO.
Ping!
They are infected through and through with the tendency toward surrender. The population is aging, few children are being born. Without a stake in the future, many will feel the best course is just to go about one’s little life and try not to worry about what Brussels is doing.
Although, yes, we did determine to liberate Europe in the last world wars—”pull their chestnuts out of the fire,” as had been said before-—of course we acted because it was in our best national interest to do so.
At some point, we realized the threat was real and growing and it was better to stop it “over there.”
Today one has to ask whether we would ever be in that position again. Our military is so advanced now that we could sit by while quite a bit of shenanigans went on in Europe and it would not become a threat to us. What would prompt us to do a WWII-style rescue of Europe this time? Their economic contribution to the global economy? Their security contribution? Some threat to us posed by a civil-warring Europe?
The point is that there is a much, much greater margin of tolerance, I think, presently, and Europe could become really bad off before that situation even began to threaten our national interests (assuming the Middle East does not become involved early on). Therefore, the likelihood of us rescuing them from a bureaucratic coup-—*or its cascading ramifications in the follow-on years and decades*-—is very low.
The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and followed by a Declaration of War from Germany?
a sad end to some great cultures
makes one wonder if all the American lives given to give the Eurpeans the good life was all for naught.
Yes, that would probably do it!
GLOBALISM PING
And all from a simple little trade agreement on coal. Sounded so harmless at the time...
At least they’re falling in line with the rest of the One-Worlders.
http://www.ecfr.eu/content/entry/about/
Is that true? was there a declaration of war from Iran (not including the defacto declaration of war from Iran by them supplying weapons to our enemies in Iraq)??
Just reading the description of who is involved is enough to panic you. Journalists? Professors? Good Lord, it’s shocking to think what would happen if we placed our media and professors in a position of power.
Europe is lost. Honestly, I don’t see how it could survive this.
Thanks for the link, I think. Perhaps ignorant bliss would sometimes be better.
This is coming to the U.S. You just know it.
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