The US really has five competitors/adversaries. They are EU, China, India, Russia and Islam. China, Russia and India have regional aspirations. Islam will attack and destroy us even if we gave them eveything. The EU is very similar. Their heartburn is our live style. In other words the EU will not stop until the US is exactly like them. Unlike the other four which uses visible military and economic pressures, while Islam uses naked terrorism, the EU uses their network of leftwing intellects and the sympathetic US media to do their dirty work. Goal of the EU is to hamstring the US with the same international and big government regs so we atleast will be at their level of economic development. Currently the EU cannot free itself of the constraints of socialism without domestic disturbance and they cannot sit idly by as the US surpasses them. The financial meltdown gave us BO and an opportunity for the EU to impress their socialist constraints on our society thru velvet power.
The US really has five competitors/adversaries. They are EU, China, India, Russia and Islam. China, Russia and India have regional aspirations. Islam will attack and destroy us even if we gave them eveything. The EU is very similar. Their heartburn is our live style. In other words the EU will not stop until the US is exactly like them. Unlike the other four which uses visible military and economic pressures, while Islam uses naked terrorism, the EU uses their network of leftwing intellects and the sympathetic US media to do their dirty work. Goal of the EU is to hamstring the US with the same international and big government regs so we atleast will be at their level of economic development. Currently the EU cannot free itself of the constraints of socialism without domestic disturbance and they cannot sit idly by as the US surpasses them. The financial meltdown gave us BO and an opportunity for the EU to impress their socialist constraints on our society thru velvet power.