Everyone I know looked at me funny when I said that the US was going to treat Europe like the Middle East and aim to completely destabilise all of it then reap whatever it can gain from opportunities that the chaos provides.
It is the only way that they know how to operate. Europe is now a major theatre for them and they are operating in it exactly as they operate everywhere else in the world.
like Awoo said in the other thread
It's a feeling I've had growing for a while, but the pipeline attacks have forced it to crystalise.
As for Awoo's post in the other thread, she couldn't be more right as far as I'm concerned. And reading it now, she put it far my eloquently.