COMMENT:
“When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.”
–Louis-Ferdinand Celine
AF
REPLY: That’s on level Allen. These European leaders live up to now. Their historical past of earlier imperial greatness has change into the core a part of a their view of their nation’s story about itself—a “golden age.” It’s a supply of immense cultural pleasure, creative achievement, and historic identification. Reconnecting with that previous is seen as therapeutic. The institution of the EU was purported to defeat the greenback. That failed. Their claims {that a} mixed GDP would exceed the US by no means materialized as a result of they’re socialists and needed to management every thing. Their perceived nationwide greatness failed earlier than their eyes and struggle is now the quilt up for a humiliating interval of decline.
