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Quite long, but very realistically summerizing the mood as I believe I perceive it from media all around:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...581502,00.html But with the sun of the American era setting, there comes the need for the Europeans to show that they can be masters of their own fate without comfortably leaving leadership and responsibility coming along with it to Washington. That is both a chance and a risk for Europe - and unfortuantely, considering the way the EU formed itself over the past 14 or 15 years, there is good reason to have some doubts that it can make it. Time will tell, and we cannot avoid to see it: for a return to the old order of american dominance is out of question, I think.
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Nice to see our German friend once more forecasting the end of America.
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and why the black-white paitning? The end of America and end of the American world order are two different things. The british empire is no more, too, but Britain until today survived that. Leave my person out of it, Tchocky. Argue with the essay, or don't.
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Cool your jets, I'm only taking the piss. :p
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That "essay" is almost as long as some peoples posts around here.:hmm:
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UN out of the US, US out of the UN!
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Let me try this again, my last rebuttal did not stick. Webster defintion of an Empire, "A politcal unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations, and ruled by a single supreme authority."
This fits perfectly the Greek, Roman and British empire rule. You cannot change definition to suit personal ideaogogy, then language itself become moot. |
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