It’s a guess, spitting off the forecastle and hoping the wind’s blowing out

“Poverty is returning to Europe," Jan Zijderveld, the head of Unilever's European business told the Financial Times Deutschlandin an interview.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9501771/Unilever-sees-return-to-poverty-in-Europe.html

One thing – If Europe goes down the tubes, we still have that big ocean to the east, and nobody in Europe has anything that will reach us, except airliners and ships. No bombers, no missiles.

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