Posted on 06/11/2018 10:32:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
“Keep calm and carry on.” In the wake of a disastrous G7 summit where US president Donald Trump all but broke off the Western alliance, the EU should stay cool and prepare to take over global leadership.
That is the message on Monday (11 June) by a former member of the EU leaders club, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
“The US is leaving a vacuum. And who should step in? For me, it is completely obvious, it is Europe’s time to step in,” the former Danish prime minister said at an event in Brussels. “That’s where our new next opportunity is,” she said, describing Trump’s course as a “most massive wake-up call.”
Thorning-Schmidt, who was presenting a report on “What Europe can do to regain initiative”, insisted that the EU should have a “bigger engagement in the Middle East”, and recommit to the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.
She also argued that the EU should take “the leadership — that we would get from nowhere else — in regulating the information society.” …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
The EU could stop picking ballerinas as defense secretaries.
The G-7 is past
The future is East of Suez. That thought was reinforced in Singapore.
Europe is of no consequence in the future.
China, taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, The United States...... The Big 10, are the future
YES! With your checkbook to pay your share of NATO and the UN, for starters.
The future is right here pal. We nationalists are coming back strong and are going to crush globalism politically. It's a world wide phenomenon and LONG over due.
I have an idea, why don't you move "East of the Suez"!
When I use those words i go back and check them each before I post. I turned off spell-check as it is too often misleading.
Balderdasious drivel
You can’t see what is right before your eyes
The North Korean threat has been removed to permit unimpeded trade.
The business of America is business...... global in scale and accomplishment. Always has been and always will be.
I woulsn’t trust that.
Sometimes, the shortest comments are the best ones...:)
I remember some time back (when it seemed relevant and important) to take a look at the EU Constitution. I actually downloaded and read much of it.
I was dumbfounded when I read it. It had everything up to and including the kitchen sink. When you read it, you clearly see the truth in the old saying “A platypus is a duck designed by committee”! It is the most absurd thing of its type I had ever seen since the USA provided a template for the rest of the world. (For what it is worth, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn remarked that the Soviet Constitution was a wonderful document, it was just that it was completely ignored and interpreted by the Soviet judiciary to benefit the interests of the state...something we are in danger of here)
I boil down the elegance and power of the US constitution to two things: It’s stress on the rights of the individual, and its remarkable brevity.
I saw this at a website, and thought it made all the points well:
The U.S. Constitution, with all its amendments, is 7,200 words long. The EU Constitution, now formally known as the Lisbon Treaty, is 76,000.
The U.S. Constitution, in particular the Bill of Rights, is mainly about the liberty of the individual. The EU Constitution is mainly about the power of the state.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence, which foreshadowed the constitutional statement, promises ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ The EU’s equivalent, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, guarantees its citizens the right to strike action, free health care, and affordable housing.
The U.S. Constitution came into effect only following ratification by specially convened assemblies in eleven of the member states, with the remaining two, North Carolina and Rhode Island, falling into line soon afterward. [. . .] In 2005, the [EU Constitution] was put to the vote in two of EU’s founding states, France and the Netherlands. Both rejected it: by 54 percent and 62 percent respectively. [O]n June 12, 2008, Ireland voted on the text. Once again, it was rejected. And, once again, the EU brushed aside the rejection and pushed ahead regardless.
Where the U.S. Constitution was based on empowering the people and controlling the state, the EU Constitution was based on empowering the state and controlling the people.
The U.S. Constitution begins, ‘We, the People . . .’ The EU Constitution, in the form of the amended European Treaties, begins, ‘His Majesty the King of the Belgians...”
ROTFLMAO!
The notion that the US must take responsibility for European security into perpetuity because otherwise Germany will overrun Europe is patented interventionist nonsense.
Bimbomania at Mandela’s funeral! these folks have zero class.
I'm not sure that's the case. I suspect they want to be in charge; they don't want to actually be RESPONSIBLE for anything.
Germany has a history. Three times in 75 years.
We Need To Get Our Troops Out Of Europe! It’s getting ready to explode again.
Patent. Pant means obvious. Patented is registered with the government in order to have exclusive right of production.
“Pant means obvious.”
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It does? :-)
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Sorry. Patent.
Running won’t help, especially if we need to be there to stop it. And perhaps we ought to act now to stop it.
Consider how much Obama handed them in terms of power over his eight years of deconstructing the USA; he even expressed admiration for that “European leadership”.
This bit of poisonous politicking was helped along by the left in the USA as far back as 1948. Look up the American Committee on United Europe if you’re not familiar with it.
This is the setup for a transfer of power to a strongman. That strongman will certainly shake things up in terms of defense ministers.
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