"Thirty years ago at University, we joked that a European Army would be commanded by a German General, a European Air Force by a French Air Marshal and a European Navy by a British Admiral. The Commander-in-Chief would probably be Belgian. Junker was quite right when he called for a ‘European Army."
By Charles Bruggmann on Buying Trident would weaken British defence

"If world politics is so much like the weather no doubt power will change like the wind but where is the proof that the US is actually declining? Life is too dynamic to be pinned down. There is always a disjunction between what is happening and what is seen to be happening."
By aegian on World no longer listens to the deaf prophets of the west