You can't expect a committee to run a campaign, especially if you don't have much at stake in the outcome. Wars are expensive, people get hurt, and they rarely turn out the way you expect them to, even the ones you win. The first half of 20th century left them in the same shape the Confederacy was in 1865: in ruins, depopulated, broke, exhausted, and with the US in charge. Then in the second half they lost world hegemony, their empires and had a cold war.that bled them dry. Maybe the Euros have finally grown up, and gotten flags and marching out of their system. Or maybe they are just tired.