Europe incapable, America unwilling

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-880945.html

I dare to predict that if the shale gas boom in the USA really ignites to its full projected potential, the US may dare to even move out of the Middle East labyrinth. Bad news for Israel, probably, and for Europe as well, needing to face a nuclear armed Iran by itself then.

Still financial ties remain. The US cannot survive without huge amounts of foreign money streaming into its capital markets to maintain its financial system, which in principle is no financial system but a debt system. This could only be avoided by the US if willing a real financial reform like the ones Europe has seen in the past. And that again maybe would work in the US - but at the cost of turning the rest of the world - America's debtors - to ruins. For China, such a loss of its investments into the American money patient easily could mean a reason to indeed wage kind of a war. But maybe America looses interest in the far east as well once its energy system has become fully autark?

However, state of things is that said things are a wakeup-call to Europe. And I am quite confident that nobody in Europe will care to listen. Especially not in Germany. We are busy with our social-cultural hobbies and our multicultural obsessions, you see, you have to excuse us for a couple of decades. History will have to wait for us.

Hallo - history, you hear us...?

Hallo...? Anyone there? We are here! Wait for us!

Zzzzz. It seems our relation with history also isn't anymore what it used to be.