The painful bailout deal Greece was forced to accept this week has exposed what many feared – the European Union is run by a body that could best be described as the German Empire in terms of both its operation and implications, political journalist David Dayen said.
What the European Union boils down to is “a shotgun marriage run on threats,” the journalist pointed out in an opinion piece published by Salon.
What Germany should keep in mind is that empires – no matter how powerful or vital they are – are destined to fall.
“The thing about empires is that they end sooner or later, because human beings don’t much like to be controlled by an overlord they never elected or endorsed,” the journalist pointed out, adding that “the inevitable breakup [of the German Empire] will breed global instability layered atop an already shaky world.”
Source: sputniknews.com