Towards Europe's next bloodbath?

Interesting comment from the US, linked here, from which comes this quote: The most astonishing fact is the apathy of ordinary Europeans, as shown, for example, by the trivial tabloid headlines in European newspapers; they are just not interested in the biggest political event of the last half century................................ The closest historical precedent is the unification of Germany by Otto Bismarck in 1871. That was not a happy event, in the longer term. The EU does not have to go the way of Bismarck's Second Reich, but it reflects very much the same aristocratic disdain of the ruling classes, and the same distrust of ordinary people.