Monday, September 12, 2011
"... the new Europe... increasingly a whole equal to less than the sum of its parts... and this depreciation, this fundamental imbalance seems to be accelerating to the point where even the European knack for ignoring a problem by making it less earnestly real through more eloquent abstraction seems overwhelmed... I suspect eventually the various discrete components of it will be absorbed as a protectorate under the guidance of some German/Chinese partnership because both of them after all, no matter how dysfunctional the union itself becomes, are well served by its continuance... and I'm thinking if Putin manages to reconstitute some semblance of Soviet Russia, which I'm reasonably convinced is his long term goal, then might as well give him a seat at the table too... although, Russia and China sitting peaceably at the same table?... likely one looking to pull the chair out from under the other would be my guess... still, the thought of Putin posing bare chested, grinning mischievously, gracing a new Euro note... definitely amuses..."
