| Pyro as Bill said: Had the EU offered a serious challenge to compete economically or militarily with the US or China we were and would have remained a full partner. |
Well on the military side of things, we Europeans are not as obsessed by "world domination" as the US is, we don't feel the need to invade, bomb, overthrow governments (as the US had done in central and south American countries in the past 50 years and elsewhere) Perhaps in light of growing threats from countries such as China, Russia, Iran or North Korea, perhaps we should be more militarized, I don't know.
As for the economic side of things, The Euro is pretty much on par with the US Dollar in terms of importance. The US dollar's only advantage is it being the world's reserve currency, but that's all. But here is the fun part: Had the Pound joined forces with the Euro by merging with it, we (the UK and EU) together would easily have weighed more than the Dollar. I wouldn't have given the dollar more than 10 years of domination before a united "Euro/Pound" would have kicked it out of the top spot. And that's not even including more countries (Like Poland, Scandinavian countries, other central European countries etc) that still can join the Euro and make it weigh even more.
The true winner of Brexit is the US Dollar and American domination. If anyone should party tonight it's Trump that should, also Putin and the Chinese dictator, can't remember his name.
A DIVIDED Europe is good for them all.
