Europe's Derelict Tourist Destination Mutation

Barely three years ago on the back of the Russian invasion of Georgia and the feckless response this elicited from the European Union, I wrote an article entitled Utterly pointless Europe, (Asia Times Online, August 16, 2008) that discussed the lack of strategic space for the EU to maneuver through, and ended the article by suggesting that Europeans could avoid strategic extinction by simply falling under the Russian yoke and allowing the Kremlin to do their thinking and decision-making for them.