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After reading some our your comments, there is something that has been hinted on that I would like to expand.

US and EU future relations.

Recently Bush changed the US doctrine from something in the realm of 'ensure the dominance of democracy' to 'ensure US is the sole super power of the world'.

To me, this means that if any nation, allies included, try to present themselves as a superpower the US will use economic and political tools to push them down. Similar to how US won the cold war. US spent way more militarily and used a lot of political/economical pressure to ensure USSR failed.

Now, with EU this would be different. For one, US had the EU as a partner against USSR. With EU, US would be alone.

My thoughts are how would US and EU relate with each other? Would they begin to be at constant odds, simply to be at odds, as happened frequently between US and USSR. Would EU push unified military and greatly increase the monetary budget to match or exceed that of the ungodly high US military budget? Honestly, I don't know. US history with most of EU members has been really good. Some recent lapses in policy of course with Iraq and especially with climate related issues. But, in general very favorable. Plus, we already have NATO and a pretty good military relationship as a whole.

Also, what about Canada? They are clearly a US neighbor, but their style of government is much more closer with EU than US. i.e. much more socialist. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I personally think, globally, health care and education should be free for all. That is about it though. Marketplace should remain capitalistic.

What are your thoughts? Do you see more friction between a strongly unified EU and the US or a pretty much unchanged status quo.