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[RecruitMonty]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

I don't think ethnic tensions in most of Europe are near as high as they were in Yugoslavia. And keep in mind what happened between Quebec and the rest of Canada. There will ALWAYS be a few hotheads but most people don't think the situation is bad enough to start shooting at each other about.

Didn't take too long with Yugoslavia either. It kicked off in the eighties after Tito died and was an all out shooting war by 1991. Some will say foreign powers had something to do with the rapidity of it. That is debateable. What makes anyone think that a fractured Europe would be immune from external manipulation? The EU is already hardly immune.

Believe me, Europe will not need ten years. The cracks are already visible.

The East does not agree with the West about how to deal with Europe's problems.

The North does not agree with the South.

No one is being fiscally responsible anymore - not even Germany.

All the other problems will become more apparent as time goes by and because there simply cannot be enough GDP to go around to pay for the 24hour / 365 day a year distractions that will be necessary to keep people ticking over, at some point something will give.

People will then do what they always do when this happens.