I disagree with everything, except for the last paragraph.

Since WWII, Europe has been scared of military power and counted on the US for its defense.

Truth is, Europeans have never come to terms with WWII and have refused since then to do the necessary work of introspection to understand how it could have happened.

Originally, I wanted to write about this, but I lacked space, so I just talked about the three types of collapse that Germany is about to go through.