The European Union is experiencing a long-term decline because its economic framework is based on subservience to the US and an absence of genuine strategic investment.

“My fear is not that Greece is going to have another spasm like we had in 2010. My fear is that Europe has become a Greece rit large.”

The European Union is currently in a state of long-term economic decline exacerbated by persistent austerity and an inability to adapt its institutions for growth.

“We're not sort of like, you know, we're not we're not it's it's not so much a crisis that I see. It's more like a a a long-term drawn out decline. And that is exacerbated by the fact that people are still very optimistic about Europe, especially, you know, pro- Europeans.”