Posted on 06/25/2016 5:39:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Saturday that the EU would weather the shock of the British vote to leave the union as he convened crisis talks.
“I am confident that these countries can also send a message that we won’t let anyone take Europe from us,” he said heading into a meeting in Berlin of his counterparts from the EU’s six founding members. […]
Steinmeier called the European Union “a successful project of peace and stability” and said that there was a “strong desire” within the bloc to defend and strengthen it. …
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The Czar’s days were numbered, even in 1915. While Lenin was enjoying life in Switzerland at that point, neither he nor the deep problems in Russia were going away.
An early US intervention might have saved the Kaiser. Or it may have just meant that the US would have ended up in the same mess as Europe at the end of that war.
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