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Originally posted by onetime2
But, will it feel the same when/if Russia decides it's had enough of the "play nice" game? Or Germany decides that it's current strategy of teaming with the French to dominate the EU isn't working and they need/deserve more? How about if one (or a group) of the former Soviet states begins amassing troops and looking outside their own borders at the prosperity that they haven't quite been able to provide for themselves?
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I think you are reading way to much into American "exeptionalism" - Europe is trying hard to build its own defense force and working together in the UN security council to balance their interests, sometimes teaming up with Russia and China - sometimes going completely against China's & Russia's interests - the only thing that is blocking it now is the UK, which is behaving like the 51st state and is keeping the EU from becoming a true "political" and "military" union that could re-examin the Trans-Atlantic relationship - the EU has allready established a free trade zone and is steadily surpassing the USA in economical potential - so it has gained enough institutional power and means to mend its own affaires.
While I do believe in the concept of "exeptionalism" in a "real (german) political" way - I think the US has more interests in and is focussing more on "other"
problem areas to put it into practice - the EU doesn't longer need US "interference" to solve its own and other peoples problems. I actually think that a more balanced power relationship between the two transatlantic powers can be benificial to both
