War between European countries in the next five years?

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The news out of Europe is alarming. Angela Merkel insists on deflating half of Europe and this crime won't be forgotten. I'm sure that some Germans remember when the Entente through Chancellor Heinrich Bruning deflated Germany and this led directly to Hitler's taking power. This is something that however has been obscured over the years. Nevertheless, whenever a country is forced into policies that punish most of the population, this leads to anger, resentment and war. Many recent conflicts involved the IMF and structural adjustment policies causing populations to feel cheated in such places as Rwanda and Yugoslavia. The EU people even admit that what they're doing is punishing the people of Greece and their answer to this manufactured crisis is to be even more severe and punitive in future. This is going to end in war, I think.

Who's going to fight who? Europe has arranged itself politically so as to avoid any further wars among themselves. To predict imminent war between European nations is so outlandish as to make the Communists' predictions of the proletarian revolution seem perfectly sensible in comparison.

I'll tend to agree with Orwell on this issue.

Europe's economically integrated to the point where war would be catastrophic - I mean, worse than Ireland, Spain, and Portugal all going down like the Greece. Much worse.

I do worry about rightwing nationalists and militant Islamophobes getting close to those in power, though.

Gimme a gun and sign me up. I've always wanted to see continental Europe. Hunting down all the neo-fascist militant extremists is a great government sponsored vacation. France, German, Italy, and then on to Greece and the rest of the Balkans.

Just get me out of Russia by winter and we'll be ok.

I doubt it. I could see one in eastern Europe like with Russia and Georgia but def not western europe.

There was a war in Yugoslavia. Don't give me "the Serbs and Croats always hated each other", I could say the same thing about the Germans and the French or whatever others that have warred over the centuries. People are going to look for scapegoats. There's going to be violence, you can take that to the bank.

What's going on are these countries going off a cliff. There's going to be a great deflation. The plutocracy is being openly sadistic. Naturally, if you have a situation where people might lynch the plutocrats they'll tell them to blame the krauts or whoever else.

The Greek situation has been used to whip up animosity against nations. There has been anti-Greek propaganda in the media and this already has led to mutual resentment. The attacks on Greeks have been personal and civilisational.

Their alleged competence is not preventing the economic equivalent of Jim Jones' white night from being carried out. It's shocking to see this suicide go on.

On the plus side, if Europe undergoes massive deflation, then a European vacation would become affordable finally.

There is an attempt to make the Eurozone a place of permanent deflation and high unemployment by putting all the countries in an even tighter neoliberal straitjacket. This is foolishness. The problem with the Eurozone is that it rules out flexibility in pursuing economic policies, particularly those that help ordinary people.

about as likely as canada invading the USA

Europe is so economically integrated that a war between European powers could not be managed. On of the reasons why Germany became a war-maker following the the Versailles Treaty was that she was isolated, looted and cut out from the other nations. This created just the situation for the Man on a Horse to ride in and Right The Wrong Done to the Fatherland.

No such thing happened following WW2.

ruveyn