The EU is a mess. Everyone knows this. Its banks are zombies. Its bond markets oxymorons. Its trade relations with the world degrading. And its relationship with the people it nominally governs is turning toxic.
Patton wanted to kick their asses back into Russia while we had the men and equipment there to do it. That was likely why he was killed. An accident? Hardly. They knew his route and that truck deliberately turned in front of his car. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke