Agenda (Implosion of Europe)

Stratfor via YouTube ^ | February 5, 2010 | Peter Zeihan

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I wonder, if whether or not the destruction of the EU would be a good thing. There’s a lot of inner squabbling and only a handful of countries really have any say. Furthermore, the collapse of the Euro (which is incidentially stronger than the dollar) might actually help the dollar since the countries, if they revert to their old currencies, will be considerably weakened. Then we’ll be able to make more strategic alliances without the EU, since there won’t be an EU.

We could make treaties with Greece, Italy, who knows who else without having to deal with any European hegemony. France and Germany will be in a less significant position and with no massive EU uniting the countries, it might very well lead to less of a chance of war. A main cause of WWI was the fact that so many countries had interconnecting treaties that it was inevitable that the world be dragged into full blown war despite the triviality of the actual situation.

If other countries decide to support the war effort in Iraq or Afghanistan, then it would be fantastic and the EU (since it would be gone) wouldn’t be able to stop us from gaining much needed strategic alliances. The dollar is stronger, the ability to make indepedent treaties with even more independent countries, and then much more flexibility. On a whole, the collapse of the EU would be better for the US than worse.