From: wernerhetzner@gmail.com   
      
   Nowadays the European Union is under threefold pressure.   
      
   Firstly, this is the pressure of the people at large, who don’t like the   
   inevitable decrease in the standard of living. They got used to considering   
   themselves as the “salt of the earth” and are sure that they are owed high   
   social standards by    
   their birthright.   
      
   Secondly, this is also the pressure of national states pulling in different   
   directions.   
      
   Having lost the opportunity to ensure financing for the globalist policy at   
   the US’ expense, Euro-bureaucracy started to be uninteresting for national   
   governments. It does a lot of squealing, but it doesn’t have enough wool.   
   Respectively, ethnic    
   contradictions, which in the past were softened by the all-European policy,   
   again come to the forefront, tearing “united Europe” apart.   
      
   Thirdly, the US isn’t interested anymore in maintaining a high standard of   
   living in the EU, closes its markets to them, and tries to kill off European   
   industry as a competitor to their own one. Washington is also interested in   
   redistributing the    
   resources controlled by the EU in its own favour. And lastly, seeing the   
   danger of the in-motion (although slow) drift of the EU towards Russia, the US   
   isn’t interested in leaving for Moscow a united European Union, which can be   
   put into order rather    
   quickly. The policy of Washington over the past two years is designed to   
   destroy the EU.   
   https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-09/eu-2019-problem-survival   
      
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