From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    Martin Edwards wrote:   
      
   > As a British citizen I agree.  America is about to sneeze, and we are   
   > going to get a cold, and many fatal conditions start with a cold.   
      
   It's the other way around. Europe is a travesty. It can't defend itself,   
   the Brits seized an Iranian ship and then immediately hid behind   
   the U.S., blaming Trump for their actions, as if the U.S. lacks a navy...   
      
   Europe has had one long period of peace and relative prosperity,   
   and that's the Cold War when the U.S. & Soviet Union called all the   
   shots. Europe doesn't want it anymore, the U.S. is sick of babysitting   
   and Europe is going to burn the planet down again.   
      
   Guaranteed.   
      
   It will happen. Europe has never not done so.   
      
   "But it's the U.S. and oil," our European friends shout, pushing us   
   in front of the bus, as the U.S. produces more oil than Saudi Arabia   
   and exports more than Iraq was before Bush's invasion. "Those   
   Americans need the oil!"   
      
   Europe is NOT energy independent. It's not food independent. France   
   is the only Western European nation that can even feed itself without   
   imports!  The U.S. is fine. Europe is the rotten, stinking structure that   
   can't wait to crumble.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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