Is Europe headed for a civil war?

[LeftishBrit]

29. The EU is not one entity and never has been.

Its existence does however help to reduce the risk of wars between countries.

Terrorism and intergroup violence within a country does not equal, or usually cause, civil war between the countries. We are talking basically about small groups of violent young men: religious fundamentalists versus racist nationalists. Neither type of group is an asset to society, or very safe to have around, but it is not as though they are determining the entire course of life within their countries, let alone between them. Even the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which might be described as a form of local civil war, did not spread to other countries (not even to the Republic of Ireland to any appreciable extent). And did not, in their entirety, kill anything as like as many people as are murdered with guns in the USA (let alone all murders in the USA) in any single year , yet you do not describe the USA as being in a state of civil war.