Oil and Water Don't Mix All That Well.

The European Flags aloft outside of the
Berlaymont in Brussels, the European
Union's version of the White
House in Washington, D.C.

Some 66 years after the Third German Reich fell to the Allied Powers, the current Federal Republic of Germany has managed to do what no one would ever expect: conquer another nation without the need for its Bundeswehr (federal army). But it's done so under the guise of the European Union and through its economic might. First, the Greeks are no longer able to hold their leaders to account, since the current emergency has prompted the E.U. to appoint new leaders. Then the Irish, then the Portuguese, now Italy. I guess the Germans finally got their wish to conquer Europe, although they did it with pens and bank accounts rather than by force of arms. With the economic crisis in Europe only growing more troublesome, it's perhaps only a matter of time before something drastic might be necessary. What was previously unthinkable - like say, a military occupation by a resurgent Germany in another member state of the European Union - could actually come to pass rather quickly. But the better question is if the European Union would ever allow for the German Bundeswehr to invade another country for the purpose of keeping that member state within the Union.