"For all the problems of the EU, it's pretty harmless compared to the predatory monster otherwise known as the US superstate, which spends half its funds on permanent war, and has been captured by $3 billion in annual campaign donations."
The problems of the EU -- complete elimination of the democratic process & an attack on west european worker living standards through the virtual outsourcing built into the system (w eastern Europe) is not harmless at all.
Moreover the U.S. is not separate from all this: its permanent war strategy is useful to the EU in all kinds of ways: it's money it doesn't have to spend and an invidious comparison (we're harmless, they're not).
Joanna