Mitchell, I agree Europe is toast and a new world energy order is being fashioned.
A few days I wrote on Medium:
"The Europen Union, has become a high tech and an overseas-holdings dependent, contiguous territory. It has little oil reserves, a declining gas production, is faced with rising debt, immigration, political unrest, inequality, and has a wide-open, indefensible border. It can no longer expect to be carried by the rest of the world.
The colonizers are about to be colonized.
In our soon-to-be-energy-starved future continental Europe has become a liability the U.S. can not afford."