“It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.”

—  Zbigniew Brzeziński , book The Grand Chessboard

Source: The Grand Chessboard (1997), Chapter 3, The Democratic Bridgehead, p. 75.

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