The main reason why these, and many other, forms of historic revisionism are kept under a tight lid has to do with the achievements of the European project, and that includes things like free passportless travel and a high standard of rights for minorities. Take the EU away, and a whole host of previously unthinkable events become possible \u2014 from wars to \u201cfrozen\u201d conflicts of the sort that Russia and Serbia maintain in places such Transnistria or Kosovo.<\/p>\n
No doubt, in such an event, the bigger players would have their say too \u2014 like an already emboldened Russia that\u2019s being egged on by the Trump administration in Ukraine and is rather keen to demonstrate the hollowness of NATO\u2019s Article 5; or even a Germany under the possible leadership of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which Trump ally Elon Musk urged to move beyond the country\u2019s historic guilt.<\/p>\n
What could go wrong, really?<\/p>\n
The suggestion that the EU represents a dead end in Europe\u2019s civilization betrays a profound ignorance of the continent\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Since the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe has always been balancing cultural and political unity and diversity, and its succession of unwieldy quasi-federal institutions are a part of that. Far from being an aberration, the EU continues in the tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hanseatic League or the Polish-Lithuanian Republic.<\/p>\n
Of course, one may argue that what happens in Europe should be Europe\u2019s problem, not America\u2019s. But that\u2019s, at most, an argument for disengagement, including a withdrawal of the U.S. security umbrella from Europe \u2014 not for the current efforts by Musk and Washington to put their finger on the scales of European politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main reason why these, and many other, forms of historic revisionism are kept under a tight lid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6502,768,31,32,295,2000,6562,299,5187,1105,2348,660,48,811,6717,1771,49,1781,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-651723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aleksandar-vucic","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-eu27","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-far-right","18":"tag-history","19":"tag-kremlin","20":"tag-rights","21":"tag-security","22":"tag-transatlantic-relations","23":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-viktor-orban","26":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115772499414767324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}