Reading up on daily events, and perhaps on the verge of an actual Greece deal, increasingly I’m thinking this has got to stop, guys, there is no basis for this. It makes no sense and it is no use. The mold is broken. The EU as a concept, as a model, has failed and is already a thing of the past.
It’s over. And anything that’s done from here on in will only serve to make things worse. We should learn to recognize such transitions, and act on them. Instead of clinging on to what we think might have been long after it no longer is.
Whatever anyone does now, it’ll all come back again. That’s guaranteed. So just don’t do it. Or rather, do the one thing that still makes any sense: Call a halt to the whole charade.
As for Greece: Just stop playing the game. It’s the only way for you not to lose it.
There’s no reason why European countries couldn’t live together, work together, but the EU structure makes it impossible for them to do just that, to do the very thing it was supposed to be designed for.
Germany runs insane surpluses with the rest of the EU, and it sees that as a sign of how great a country it is. But in the present structure, if one country runs such surpluses, others will need to run equally insane deficits.
Cue Greece. And Italy, Spain et al. William Hague for once was right about something when he said this week that the euro could only possibly have ended up as a burning building with no exits. This is going to lead to war.
Simple as that. It may take a while, and the present ‘leadership’ may be gone by then, but it will. Unless more people wake up than just the OXI voters here in Greece.The crisis in Europe — it's not limited to Greece — began in psychopathy and has descended into sociopathy.
And the only reason for it to happen is if the present flock of petty little minds in Berlin, Paris, London and Brussels try to make it last as long as they can, and call for even more integration and centralization and all that stuff. The leaders are useless, the structure is painfully faulty, and the outcome is fully predictable.…
So much for those preaching "European values." European values —really?
The Automatic Earth
Someone Pull The Plug or This Will End in War
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
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It appears this guy conflates the EU and EZ like Hudson...
Same thing. Only Americans and Europhiles think there is a difference.
The EU is the Eurozone with a few grandfathered opt outs. Its the EU that is negotiating TTIP behind everybody's backs.
There is zero chance of war. Between who? What leader is going to risk the inevitable war crime trial, what army would follow? And long before that, there would just be a phone call from a certain hegemon. In a way, that is the problem. Wars provided a reset, a mental focusing, where sane economics was used, usually for insane purposes. With no wars, and none in the offing, peoples don't have the dodge they used to, and they actually have to understand the reality they live in and create. The difference between the EZ & the EU is legally important & thus real. Next to a chimerical "good Euro", Greece's best outcome is leaving the EZ & staying in the EU. Possible? - Surely. Probable? - Who knows?
As I understood him, Ilargi is saying down the road, not now or in the immediate future.
Yeah, I shot that off quickly, he is mainly speaking probably figuratively, like Hague. But it is hard to see what he means in the end. Spent too much time at the Wonderland of NC, where there have been serious suggestions - from a generally sane Mil History prof for one! - that there might be a debt-collecting war. Which is probability nil, now or down the road. At least not before a global apocalypse / world war.
My sense is that Europe is a lot closer to the "action" than the US. There is a hot war going on in Europe right now in Ukraine that few would have believed possible a only couple of years ago. Russia has annexed Crimea. NATO is on the move. Russia and China are arming in response to an increasingly aggressive US. The US is asking NATO countries to increase military budgets, ISIS Daesh is threatening Europe from the south and Central Asia from the southeast. Turkey is indirectly involves in the war in Syria. And so on. Greece is turning into a failed state purposely by the eurocrats to set an example of crossing them. The Middle East is in turmoil, Moreover, Europe is a lot closer to awareness war than the US, and they now see old animosities resurfacing with longstanding scores to settle.
Most people in the US are blissfully unaware of this or if they are aware then consider it irrelevant to their concerns. The US leadership as Americans convinced that it can deal with eventualities with technology obviating the need for US troop involvement. American are more than happy to feel safe from terrorist by foregoing civil liberties and police militarization. This appears to me to be false confidence in American exceptionalism.
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