The American view of Europe

For years, American pundits have looked at the European Union with skepticism and have never ceased to speculate about its future and coming demise.

Call it a contrarian view if you want, but I see this mindset more as petty envy coming from a country utterly convinced it's the world's best. You might call this an expected outcome of “American Exceptionalism”, I guess.

The same holds true of course for the fate of the Euro that never could have survived as a prime currency, and yet it still stands strong on the eve of its twentieth birthday!

More dramatic yet is Brexit and its unintended consequences that are demonstrating that “breaking up is hard to do” and indirectly, that the value of a Union that's much more resilient and essential to the entire Continent than Steve Bannon's would like us to believe.

I'm not even mentioning the recurrent Airbus - Boeing feud and all the ugly disagreements that were generated by the ill-conceived Iraq war. Perhaps it's time for America to grow up a bit and reassess it's new, real place in today's world!