EuroArmy

EuroArmy - For Peace or War? This is a great article with some awesome links to hard to find information - not reported in the mainstream press. Here are a few choice quotes:

“This Treaty is about creating a European Super-State and a European army to impose its will by force of arms. This new Rapid Reaction Force is not a peacekeeping force, as the government would have us believe.

"Some spokespersons would have us believe that this army is a cross between the boy scouts and St Vincent De Paul. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is an army designed for war. Why else are they arming themselves with F 16 fighter-bombers, nuclear submarines, warships and combat planes?”

"Other voices have European accents and their emphasis is not on the many interests we share, but on narrow differences. They distort American intentions; revel in American setbacks; forget American sacrifice; and tell neighbours they must choose between Europe and the United States. What a false choice that is. What a fatal choice it would be.”

“Also the European Union (EU) has become an imperialist bloc that is able to compete with the United States in the economic and financial fields. The Euro is challenging the position of the US dollar as the only international reserve currency. A transfer to the Euro of a significant part of the current world reserves held in dollars would provoke an economic earthquake. The same holds true if a major part of the oil trade, now in US currency, would shift to the Euro.”

“There could be a major, underlying reason for Bush’s adamant insistence that Iraq will undergo a regime change. That reason is found in the move Iraq made prior to the war to sell its dollars and buy euros, and demand that henceforth all oil payments be made in euros. If Nigeria, Mexico, Venezuela and all of OPEC were to also insist upon payment in euros, it would flood the global economies with dollars, dropping the currencies’ value to around 40 to 50 per cent. That would mean the collapse of the US economy!”

“If the ‘Europe of the monopolies' speaks about diplomacy, dialogue and multilateralism, it is mainly because it has not yet the means to impose its views against US military power. The European past in Africa, Latin America, Algeria or Asia shows the ferocity of European imperialism when and where it was dominant. The European army will only accelerate the rivalry and the danger for a major world war. The more this army will be able to develop its capacity for foreign interventions, the more it will reinforce the political capacity of the EU, the more it will make possible an independent European policy in favour of the European multinationals, the more it will offer the possibility to the EU to defend its zones of influence against eventual competitors, e.g. the US. This can lead to important conflicts, as has been seen in the two previous world wars.”

Americans are going to allow themselves to be blindsided by Europe. Just wait.