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The EU should treat this like America treated secessionist states - the UK should be compelled to stay by force. Obviously there should not be any actual war,
by logicallee 10y ago
The EU should treat this like America treated secessionist states - the UK should be compelled to stay by force. Obviously there should not be any actual war, since the Brtis should just say, "well, all right."
Afterward they should be full, normal participants, just as every state is a normal participant in the United States and has equal and fair votes in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Why should this be done:
1 - America shows that it is great that there is a unified country, which benefits from huge economies of scale.
2 - Can you imagine how much money is saved by not having to have border control, separate visas and citizenships in the United States? The same applies to the EU.
3 - The EU should directly compete with the United States as the second of three world poles (Asia being the third).
4 - The good of the Union outweighs the UK's selfish and shortsighted act.
Why shouldn't history repeat?
Would America be better-off if it were split into two countries?
Would America be the world's leading economy (by far)?
Citing the close historical precedent I have mentioned, I do not think that the UK should be allowed to leave the EU. Its request should be denied.
- prodmerc 10y agoA United States of Europe would be great, but what you're proposing is insane. First of all, it won't work at all without military conflict, and from there it's World War 3. Based on language alone, the EU would self-destruct so quickly you won't believe it if one EU country went to war against another, especially for the purpose of maintaining the "union".
- mattmanser 10y agoPutting aside the lack of knowledge of the situation or what the EU actually is, the UK has nuclear weapons, the highest EU defence spending and a permanent UN security council seat. The EU has no army. What you propose would mean the end of the UN, the end of NATO, the end of the EU and a possible WW3. And Russia would probably 'liberate' a few border countries from the 'imperialistic EU' while that's all happening.
- logicallee 10y agoIts request should still be denied. I notice you have not in any way attacked my historical foundation, secessionist states. The implication that the UK would detonate a nuclear bomb over this is laughable on its face. Its request should be denied.
- mattmanser 10y agoI'm not attacking it because it is stupid and shows a shocking lack of knowledge of the situation. The EU is not a country, it is a trade union with aspirations to become a full political union one day. You're talking like it's the latter when it's not.
- logicallee 10y agoYou grossly underestimate the long-term importance of it and its institutions. it's not just a "trade union" as a glance at its budget will show. Anyway we obviously have a different vision for it.