Why put about this suggestion that the EU is a joke that can't get its act together? Perhaps because it suits American interests that Europe should not unify. What the US, as an imperial power, would prefer is Europe as a group of separate countries that each follows the American lead. Washington prefers bilateral relations with each European country, in which the power relationship of major to minor is evident, rather than with a bloc that could claim a more even power-share.
Oh, bilateral relations means picking up twenty-seven telephones... But we never hear that joke, do we?
