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The worst thing you can do is underestimate an old enemy. And the EU military is already forming sub rosa, with the German military taking over the commands of the forces of its neighbors including the Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia in particular.

“Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.”

—Jean Monnet

The current rule by crisis is designed to induce demand for an authoritarian leader, and once he’s in place, he’ll clean house. The EU has always wanted this.

I do not find Shoygu impressive, BTW.

54 posted on 07/01/2018 6:58:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)

The EU doesn't have the *money* for a military.

They don't have the *manpower* for a military (unless they conscript all those Musselmen from Syria and Turkey).

They don't have the *culture* for a military (the EU is splintering already; the Tariff war with the US will finish it off).

55 posted on 07/01/2018 7:03:06 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3667651/posts

BTW, Shoygu beats the hell out of Ine Erickson Soreide. (They’re busy sexually integrating the Arctic Defense Forces. Yeah, men & women in little igloos together during a long cold winter with nobody else around. I wonder what’ll happen?)

56 posted on 07/01/2018 7:08:26 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)