Posted on 01/28/2017 3:34:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The more I see of the Donald Trump administration, the more I like its style.
Here’s a perfect example – in which Trump’s prospective new Ambassador to the European Union, Ted Malloch, tells it like it is in an interview with Andrew Neil on the BBC’s Daily Politics show.
Neil asked Malloch why on earth he’d want to be Ambassador to the EU.
AN: I mean you’re clearly not a great fan of Brussels or these bureaucrats like Juncker.TM: Well, I had in a previous year a diplomatic post where I helped to bring down the Soviet Union, so maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming.
Later, Neil asked Malloch what he thought of the President of the EU Commission.
AN: What do you think of Mr Juncker?TM: Well Mr Juncker was a very adequate mayor of some city in Luxembourg and maybe he should go back and do that again.
Neil laughed like a man who couldn’t believe his luck. Politicians are hardly ever this frank on TV politics shows. Diplomats even less so because supposedly it’s their job to be discreet, smooth things over, not ruffle feathers. As for the EU – no one of influence, with the exception of Nigel Farage, has ever talked about it so disparagingly on television.
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Panzie soros puppet heads got the jitters
Ping
Must be pretty smug.
The European Union is not and never has been in our best interests. Good riddance to it.
It’s not in the best interests of the various European peoples either. The conversion and expansion from an economic entity into a political union is where this thing fell off the rails.
Further it is an unrepresentative political union, that marginalizes dissent as well.
Clinton/Albright played a significant role in the formation of EU. With the downfall of the USSR, the USA was the only super-power remaining in the world. Clinton/Albright thought this was bad. Accordingly they took steps to weaken the USA and provide for the establishment of the EU to counter the USA influence. Some of that thinking is laid out in Albright’s book - title unrecalled.
Can you imagine doing something of this enormity without stopping to consider the long-range consequences, apart from your narrow range of goals? It's like burning down the house to roast a pig.
If thought of in terms of freeing up internal borders to permit visaless passage of citizens and unrestricted border traffic for commerce and personal travel is not the EU good. When considering the various national standards that were often in conflict, are not the EU standards worthwhile?
Is not the Current EU perhaps a first attempt as were the American Articles of Confederation that were ultimately scrapped?
My concern is that we stood by, even encouraged the organization of these states into a group that might rival the US. Worse, here we are funding NATO and giving them troops, which freed up their resources so they flourished while we were faced with tax burdens. We gave and still give with nothing in return.
The EU is on life support, but doesn’t know it. In the next 2 years, it will slowly dissolve. The only thing holding it together is Germany and if Merkel’s party suffers significant defeats this year, that could change.
More like a budding Soviet Union.
Great simile!
Quite different. Soviet Union needed walls and minefields around it to prevent the people from escaping. What the current EU needs is walls to prevent people from coming in. If it weren’t for the masses of muslims coming from the Middle-East and Africa then no one would care about there being no border checkpoints between countries like Germany or Austria or Hungary.
The EU is dying anyway...under its own bureaucratic weight.
Bureaucracies don't work in a jungle (Darwinistic) environment.
Capitalism is the law of the jungle. And, in the jungle, the best always wins.
Good bye Hilldebeast. RIP.
Hello, America.
Have at it.
Of course I can see Farage,Le Pen and many others playing a role in its downfall.Trump is another story.
Peace of Westphalia rules.
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