{"id":14427,"date":"2015-11-15T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2015-11-15T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:12:58","slug":"a-message-to-europe-prepare-for-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14427","title":{"rendered":"A Message to Europe \u2013 Prepare for Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header \">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/11\/14\/a-message-to-europe-prepare-for-nationalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Message to Europe \u2013 Prepare for Nationalism<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"clearfix post-meta post-meta-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28871\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-14-at-10.52.57-AM-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-11-14 at 10.52.57 AM\" width=\"261\" height=\"175\" \/><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p><em><strong>Although everyone watching has been convinced that Europe\u2019s disastrous economy and related debt crisis would be the spark to unravel the European Union project, it appears history has its own plans.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>While EU technocrats have demonstrated an uncanny ability to scheme, threaten, kick the can and lie their way around the debt crisis, the migrant crisis will prove to be a much graver\u00a0threat to the project. Strikingly, all\u00a0it took was a few weeks of unrelenting migrants crossing into EU borders to put an end what is essentially the only achievement of the European Union \u2014 the\u00a0Schengen system of borderless travel.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Without that, what is the EU really? A collection of nation-states forced by bureaucrats to pretend they are part of an artificial fantasy superstate called Europe? An amalgamation of debt serfs and technocratic overlords? See what I\u2019m getting at?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u00a0From the post:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/09\/15\/does-the-migrant-crisis-represent-the-end-of-the-european-union\/\">Does the Migrant Crisis Represent the End of the European Union?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before I get into the heart\u00a0of this post, I want to make something perfectly clear. I am not cheering on any of what I see coming to the European continent. It will most likely be ugly, divisive, reactionary and potentially violent.<\/p>\n<p>I am no more happy about what may\u00a0become of Europe as I am happy about the destruction of the middle class in America. Or the decimation of civil liberties in the post-9\/11 surveillance state. I could have echoed happy thoughts of solidarity and hope for the past five years of Central Bank, Wall Street and government theft as opposed to exposing oligarch crimes, but that wouldn\u2019t have saved the American middle class either. Likewise, happy thoughts and positive thinking will not help Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Message to Europe \u2013 Prepare for Nationalism Although everyone watching has been convinced that Europe\u2019s disastrous economy and related debt crisis would be the spark to unravel the European Union project, it appears history has its own plans. 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