“What do you think you are, a sovereign country or something?”
We Americans have a short view of history, and are so stuck in the long-settled Cold War that we don’t recognize that the real next threat to peace is from the West. The instigator is no longer found in Moscow, but the rising bureaucratic dictatorship that is consolidating its power in Brussels. The once-sovereign nations of Europe have jumped into quicksand and are now being swallowed up. Some Europeans (most notably UKIP) see the danger, but it is almost too late for them to get out.