The US is openly saying they want to breakup the EU. Obviously 26 singular states that have to negotiate with a big bully are weaker than one united front. But the seppos have already been attacking the EU with their social media influencers, the manosphere, paying thinkpropaganda-tanks to influence politicians and the population, funding right-wingers, hacking into our infrastructure, and more. Only recently is the entire union waking up to the threat the US poses.
But can we resist? How do you think the EU as a whole should or will react? Will the seppos be successful? What are your predictions?
we’re cooked.
The new-hotness of right-wing nationalism has basically no resistance from the floundering traditional parties. The bloated mass of politicians, fat from the gravy train of post-war Europe, are too inept to provide any counter to this.
I don’t see a realistic way to avoid this.
I worry about this too. There’s lot’s of things the EU should do (and indeed, lots of things they should have done ages ago) about this, but it’s entirely possible that they’ll just sit there writing strongly-worded letters to each other while the US and Russia steam-roller them from each side.
I’ve kind of always liked that about the EU, in principle. Valuing diplomacy and debate over brash, sweeping decisions. It seems, if nothing else, slightly more democratic. Politicians are debating because they’re representing opposing ideas, which in turn represent the people that voted for them.
But this united front of idiot forces with slogans like m.a.g.a, take back control, stop the boats and doubtless others in languages that I dont understand, they don’t sit around and debate.
I guess what I’m saying is that what should have been the EUs greatest strength, is in fact, today, one of it’s greatest weaknesses. Unfortunately, being united for a terrible cause is more powerful than being united over basically nothing.