To follow on from my previous post:
Isn't it a little bit scary that the Foreign ministers are so badly informed about what is happening in one of the larger European countries?
If they know so little about France, what do they know about Putin's plans, the growing tension between China and Japan, etc, etc??
What they do not realize is that they have destroyed most of the respect Americans have held for Europe.
They somehow think by merely posturing as "equals" to the USA that they have become such.
Further, they do not realize what becoming "superpower really entails. For example, American will not much longer take the EU under its strategic "umbrella." when that goes they will have to develop their own. Russia will not like that very much. They want to "have a louder say" in world affairs. They seem to have no idea what that means. They will get their wish: "Independence" from the USA. When they find out what that really amounts to they will not be very happy. They are like teenagers.
It seems to me that Europe has gone quite mad. The consequence are very real for Europe, and I fear that the damage is already done as far as any long term "partnership with the USA.
I believe that America will begin soon to pull out of the "partnership" on all levels. They have not only betrayed us in a time of war, but they have betrayed their own (an ours) civilization.
BTW, do you really thing that the French will vote it down. I find that hard to believe. Even if they want to vote it out, I would expect massive vote fraud. These people are so power mad that their power lust projects even out of simple PR photograph shots. I am surprised that they have gotten this far, but I would be even more surprised if anything short of war stops them now.
From this side of the atlantic they seem quite mad - more blatnat in their power lust than ever Stalin, Hitler or Tojo ever where, and much more deluded about the capacities of America to defy them. It is as if they actually believe that all of their jabbering is based on so real accomplishment and established facts.
Becoming "superpower is not just a matter of money or imitating American institutions. The overlords of the EU have it just backwards: They think America success was do to a large market, the dollar, large scale research institutions, but these are effects not causes. A nation is not a set of custom house rules.
I they do succeed in ramming this down the throats of the peoples of the EU, it is only a matter of time before wide scale disaffection set in, and then will come rebellion.
I wager that the EU though presented as a bright future will end up being Europe's greatness tragedy, perhaps its final one.