[grania]

I don't "get" Europe. The real threat is migrants from Northern Africa, radicalized maniacs from the ME, and a loss of cultural identities.

They've got instability in the south. Why are they going out of their way to poke the bear at their north?

[Olog-hai]

To provoke European unity in a militaristic sense.

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

— Jean Monnet, one of the EU “Founding Fathers”

Too many people do not see the EU in this context, and thus do not realize the danger it can present if precisely that happens.