November 17, 200421 yr http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/11/15/europe/index_np.html A specter is haunting America, and it ain't the specter of communism (however much George W. Bush and company might like to describe it that way). Barely a decade after the definitive collapse of the Soviet bloc, the United States finds itself in a new cold war, one being fought simultaneously on economic, political and cultural fronts, and one it is by no means certain to win. The unipolar world of uncontested American hegemony that we were told to expect into the indefinite future has come to an end; it lasted just about long enough for us to scratch our heads and wonder what was happening next. Yes, "Old Europe," to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's famous quip, is back, and it's looking pretty spry for its age. As Americans are finally beginning to notice, Europeans (or most of them, anyway) have reconstituted themselves into an enormous transnational superstate of 25 nations, 455 million people and an $11 trillion economy. This is, of course, the European Union, and its aims have become much broader and deeper than the stuff you've probably heard about, like allowing citizens to drive from Seville to Sicily without a passport, or to use the same anonymous-looking currency to buy a pint of Guinness in Cork and a glass of ouzo in Crete.
November 17, 200421 yr As of now Europe is not one nation, if it was able to form like this massive bloc were it acted as one nation (which may be possible some day) then it is an economic 'threat' to the US. However, the US can counter with a similar institution in the New world
November 17, 200421 yr As of now Europe is not one nation, if it was able to form like this massive bloc were it acted as one nation (which may be possible some day) then it is an economic 'threat' to the US. However, the US can counter with a similar institution in the New world NAFTA
November 17, 200421 yr As of now Europe is not one nation, if it was able to form like this massive bloc were it acted as one nation (which may be possible some day) then it is an economic 'threat' to the US. However, the US can counter with a similar institution in the New world NAFTA
November 17, 200421 yr I think they might become an economic threat to us if we continue to ignore them and do whatever the hell we want all the time. That was one of my biggest problems with Bush, and it still is.
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