Here is the prescient analyst George Friedman, proud American and child of Hungarian Holocaust survivor immigrants, pioneer in designing early wargames, founder of private geopolitical consulting firm Stratfor, author and academic, and a frequent advisor to the American government and military in foreign policy, giving his take on the course of contemporary, crisis-stricken Europe. Considering how the EU cRPG community is probably inundated in nationalistic propaganda by their governments assuring them everything is going great, I think a lot of you would be interested in hearing a world-leading expert talk truthfully about the state of European affairs.
So cRPG community, is the myth of European Exceptionalism over, as Friedman predicts? Is the EU on the brink of inevitable economic collapse? Is Southern Europe undergoing an irreversible social catastrophe that is clearing a path for a resurgence of fascism, all while German economic and political hegemony and greed irreversibly destabilizes the continent? Are the 50 Disunited States of Europe regressing to petty tribalistic border, language, and cultural rivalry that is setting a course for the end of a temporary anomaly of peace and cooperation? Will the continent find itself once more under a dark shadow of despair depravity military occupation and genocide, for the third time in the past 100 years that will require the United States of America to inevitably bail you all out, again, like always?
I am interested in people's thoughts. The comment section is even full of Germans who all "agree" with Friedman, but then immediately blame the Jews for everything lmao, and conclude that Germany's best bet is to ally with Russia to confront the Zionist and their American puppet's global domination conspiracy, which is exactly what I would expect from your average German during an economic crisis.
