>I'd say the desire to build empires is a far more dominant part of human history than fights for independence. Explaining the state of the EU to any politicia

>I'd say the desire to build empires is a far more dominant part of human history than fights for independence. Explaining the state of the EU to any politician in the 1940s, the 1840s, or the 1740s would assume Germany is positioning to make a financial conquest of the entire continent.