I love watching conversations where one person completely misses 100% of what the other person was talking about...

Might get stuck in some unmentionable places.  Drunk guys flinging heavy coins around sounds dangerous.  Though maybe thats why they invented the euro.  Their strippers werent making enough money, so they made the minimum panty tip 5 euros.  Wish america had that kind of guts.

Very true.  Vegas strippers make more than some doctors.

That guy is screwed in court.  The US legal system doesn't recognize "I was drunk" as a defense for anything, especially contract law.

Except I provided a counter-argument for each point. Youre opinion is way off, simply anti-US postings like normal.

no, because understand the many intricacies and nuances in my post what you call counter-arguments is merely a figment of your imagination. anyone can win a debate when they make up their own mind on what their opponent means, I mean sheesh do you even dare call yourself a native english speaker?

That's low, V.Kemp. It's like making fun of someone's handicaped sister.

The US has a strong, central authority with command of the most powerful military on earth. The EU is barely a weak confederation of independent nations each exercising their own autonomy. The EU may as well be compared to the Holy Roman Empire. Great potential, but incapable of serving one central authority.

but when we say that individual european states have no sovereignity anymore we're jumped on by europeans who insist the EU is NOT a loss of national authority

You can't make a treaty with New York state though.

maybe one of the absolute rules should be, "all states bordering the Adriatic are deemed "Transmarine Africa" and are ineligible for EU membership"

/gives EU some fire extinguishers

As I watch Greece go up in flames and Europe debate how it can borrow enough to sustain itself, I'm struck by the idea that a centralized, coordinated Europe is barely 20 years old.  It's not very strong and this could be our chance to kill it.

A centralized Europe will demand its own voice, while, at the same time, demand support and sustenance.  It can get fuel and arms from Russia a lot cheaper than America, at this point, could afford to offer.  At the same time, since it just won't take on Russia, as being rightly considered too mean to avoid a fight, it can gain its own voice by telling America to go to hell; coincidentally this is just what Russia would like to hear.

For those reasons then, a united Europe would be a pushy client and at best a geopolitical neutral.

A divided Europe, though, would have to settle for what it could get, and align itself with the most friendly great power.   Though it may seem odd, a divided Europe would probably be more likely to align behind NATO against Russia than the EU.

For these reasons its probably in America's interests to help spread chaos throughout the EU.