I would say. They went in search for food in the desert, they could only find sans everywhere.
When EU was established, all of them thought that this would end the doom and they could collectively be so huge that they would dominate the world. They forgot that what they thought of achieving could only be possible when they could join hands with China and Russia. They didn't do it. Instead, they remained with USA and.
Isn't it a paradox that once they wanted they wanted to defeat Dollar?