PS: A unified Europe is the best defence against Russia in the...

PS: A unified Europe is the best defence
against Russia in the longer term and
Europeans here realise that the US
would drop Europe in a flash should
its own economy fail and there is
indications of that happening now
with over 20 years of debt accrual/budget deficits
and no indication of respite as per the current
Presidential electioneering.

I was in the pub last week where
the locals commune (no tourists except me)
and the conversation
got around to the USA's attitude towards
the EU and US tariffs against European
products . The attitude was that by the US
strongly backing Brexit that that was
evidence it wanted the EC/ECB
demolished also leaving individual European
countries dependant on the US economically
and, via US led NATO, dependant on the USA
for national security.

Being an outsider I listened mute thinking that
they were talking about Aus and our economic
and Security dependance on the USA. (we couldn't
float the AUD without US permission which included
divesting Aus SOEs.)