Will Merkel drive the EU to civil war?

[<SLV>]

The American "Civil War" was not about slavery -- even Lincoln himself said that in documented correspondence. The Civil War was about preserving the Union. It was not the "war of Northern aggression," but the war of FEDERAL aggression. It was a test of which was greater, the individual states, or the union into which they had entered. The union won, and that's where we are at today.

I've been wondering lately if that is where the EU is -- at the point of crisis that will determine which is greater, the individual "states" that make up the EU, or the EU itself. So far, Merkel (and Germany) is holding the EU hostage with their big bucks. Maybe the EU could easily survive a Greek "secession", but what if Spain or Italy were to falter? (It really is inevitable at this point.)

So, what would it take for the EU to take sides and start fighting? Are we close to that point? How would the EU split? I personally get the feeling that Merkel has well alienated herself and Germany.

[southfork]

wont happen and I do like fish Tacos

[<SLV>]

wont happen and I do like fish Tacos

I should have mentioned that you can choose more than one answer to the poll!

I'm not so sure that it won't actually turn into a war. We aren't on the verge right now, but I wonder if the American Civil War could have been even IMAGINED a few years before shots were fired. After all, that's the way that TPTB like to do things -- stir the pot and finance both sides of the feud.

[Fiat Metaler]

the war between the states is best understood as the first failed war for independence.

as for europe, the crisis was baked into the cake to create a need for more federalization. i'm reminded of the scene in Hunt for Red October where the main character speculates how the russian sub captain would get everyone out of the ship - by creating a crisis where they would demand to be taken out of the sub. i expect a crisis to be fomented and tailored in such a way that the man on the street demands to be part of a federal EU. not sure how they will do that but that is the prize and absent that there will be war if anyone wants to leave.

[Al K. Hall]

The Bilderbergs issue orders to Berlin, Paris, and especially the City of London. Unless a war would prove profitable, or the Greeks (or another brave nation) would say, "we're not participating in your Babylon money anymore," there will be no war.

[Kingfisher]

So they are going to fight to keep Germany in? Or Greece, Italy and Spain? Or what.

[Kaiser]

Funny...................................