As to "cracks already appearing", I cannot even count the number of FReepers who have referred to 'the next civil war' or 'CW2' in the past year or so. The same sorts of terms appear constantly, albeit much more profanely as a rule, on the lefty boards and blogs. "Cracks" are an everywhere, all-the-time phenomenon in most nations where there is even a modicum of freedom of communication.
>>please note that I did not argue that EU would NOT fall, merely that there was no need for it to do so. The principal question for Wonderland is: will the Eurocrats take their fat thumbs off the scale. The answer that eventuates will also be the answer to EU survival.<<
A difference without a distinction. There is a need for it to fall since there is no need for it to exist. I repeat my earlier argument that the EU is a pathetic attempt to emulate the USA, substituting countries for states. It is not possible for that model to succeed.
Are you saying it can succeed? If so, please say why. If there is something in the EU construct that creates a USA-style federalism, I have missed it.
>>As to “cracks already appearing”, I cannot even count the number of FReepers who have referred to ‘the next civil war’ or ‘CW2’ in the past year or so. The same sorts of terms appear constantly, albeit much more profanely as a rule, on the lefty boards and blogs. “Cracks” are an everywhere, all-the-time phenomenon in most nations where there is even a modicum of freedom of communication.<<
How a USA “CW2” reactionistic backlash to the current administration’s abuse of power relates to the very real riots in Greece and now Denmark’s closing of her borders is beyond my ken.
The first is conceptual, the latter physical.
And France has shown its quick ability to throw a country-wide tantrum whenever government exercises its power to control the economy.
The EU cracks are quite real. The CW2 analogy conceptual (for the moment).