A Can of Man
Je suis aware
This is a carry over from a topic from "Can anyone surpass America in invention."
This involves Europe's power as a whole, so it involves their military capabilities as well.
Right now some points we made were:
- Europe's "worker friendly" system is simply not working. It's leading to brain drain and it's too company unfriendly and often worker unfriendly.
- Europe's going to have to make drastic changes for this decline to stop.
Basically the only way I see Europe making the change is this:
After decades of economic and social problems, Europe is met with a crisis in its front lawn and realizes they have become too weak to counter it. After trying to ignore it, it goes out of hand and the politicians become under huge pressure. They try their usual tactic of deflecting blame etc. on to the US but this time, the problems are so severe it doesn't work. Europe tries to do something about it but fails miserably and has to ask for America to fix the problem.
A most unfortunate scenario for Europe, but this isn't too far from reality. Remember that the breakup of the former Yugoslavia was supposed to be Europe's finest hour and the testing ground of post-Cold War Europe. A regional, purely European conflict wasn't dealt with properly by a seemingly strong Europe and Americans had to carry the brunt of the military operations (mostly the air strikes).
But even then, it is the civilians in the European countries that need to make their sacrifices so their country can be stronger. They have to listen to the words, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." This line applies even to the economy of the country. There's only so much the country can do for you, because they're doing it with your money.
Another issue.
- Irresponsibility on the part of European men in supporting children has lead to a severe drop in families as a whole, and a lack of children. This is a huge problem because a country fails to sustain itself. So the void is filled with immigrants and that brings about other problems... now with the whole war on terror, when this immigrant group happens to be Muslim, culture clashes will occur and the country can be embroiled in a cultural war.
Lack of internal stability hinder's a country's power.
Anyways feel free to discuss.
This involves Europe's power as a whole, so it involves their military capabilities as well.
Right now some points we made were:
- Europe's "worker friendly" system is simply not working. It's leading to brain drain and it's too company unfriendly and often worker unfriendly.
- Europe's going to have to make drastic changes for this decline to stop.
Basically the only way I see Europe making the change is this:
After decades of economic and social problems, Europe is met with a crisis in its front lawn and realizes they have become too weak to counter it. After trying to ignore it, it goes out of hand and the politicians become under huge pressure. They try their usual tactic of deflecting blame etc. on to the US but this time, the problems are so severe it doesn't work. Europe tries to do something about it but fails miserably and has to ask for America to fix the problem.
A most unfortunate scenario for Europe, but this isn't too far from reality. Remember that the breakup of the former Yugoslavia was supposed to be Europe's finest hour and the testing ground of post-Cold War Europe. A regional, purely European conflict wasn't dealt with properly by a seemingly strong Europe and Americans had to carry the brunt of the military operations (mostly the air strikes).
But even then, it is the civilians in the European countries that need to make their sacrifices so their country can be stronger. They have to listen to the words, "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." This line applies even to the economy of the country. There's only so much the country can do for you, because they're doing it with your money.
Another issue.
- Irresponsibility on the part of European men in supporting children has lead to a severe drop in families as a whole, and a lack of children. This is a huge problem because a country fails to sustain itself. So the void is filled with immigrants and that brings about other problems... now with the whole war on terror, when this immigrant group happens to be Muslim, culture clashes will occur and the country can be embroiled in a cultural war.
Lack of internal stability hinder's a country's power.
Anyways feel free to discuss.