> “Call me crazy, but this does sound like what the "anti-EU far right" takes issue with, more specifically the French-German political control of Europe, behol

> “Call me crazy, but this does sound like what the "anti-EU far right" takes issue with, more specifically the French-German political control of Europe, beholden to their financial interests. Now I'm not advocating for joining their side, against the EU, by any measure, but it seems to me that people should heed this warning and draw some sensible conclusions in time --- before they find themselves between two terrible extremes and no reasonable way out.” The ease with which people who show any sympathy to the idea that centralization of power in Europe has negative consequences are cowed by smears of "far right" this and "reactionary" that is precisely how the centralizers are winning. The point of the EU is to centralize political power in Europe, and the way they've gotten to this point is by obscuring that aim just enough that they aren't rejected. You can see the purpose of the EU in the calls by the French and German true leaders of the EU to raise a transnational army, the only practical purpose of which would be to police the member states and wage unpopular wars with people who are not the enemies of any member state (otherwise they are clearly doing fine with separate but cooperative military command).