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It really is extraordinary the extent to which the EU has alienated the great powers and its own flanking powers. Every time I make this point, I have EUphiles commenting angrily about how that's everybody else's fault. But there comes a stage where if everybody thinks you're an unpleasant person to deal with you have to start wondering whether it really is their fault afterall. The EU, of course, still hasn't reached that stage. Thus, having: (1) alienated Turkey, (2) lost Britain from the Union and being only one change of government away from very frosty relations, (3) presided over a total breakdown of relations with Russia, (4) having increasingly fractious relations with Serbia and Switzerland, (5) breaking relations with Georgia because they didn't like an election result there, (6) having increasingly strained relations with the US, and (7) now infuriating the Chinese by trying to pressure them using trade leverage (see the Chinese view of its own history as to why this is so tone deaf) — they still just blame everybody else for being in the wrong. They also wonder why they are losing economic competitiveness. Oh, I don't know, could it be because you cut off cheap energy from Russia, showed no flexibility with Britain, are consistently entering trade squabbles with China, and can't reach a deal with the US? The right will still claim it's green energy policies. Lolz!! Until they get past the arrogance, hubris and conceit that blinds them, the downward trend will continue.