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Not to mention the EU thinks they can police the world.
by marcrosoft 6y ago
Not to mention the EU thinks they can police the world.
- londons_explore 6y agoI'm all for someone else trying to police the world... I've had enough of one country having too much influence worldwide...
- justaguyhere 6y agoWho though? The alternatives are just as bad or worse ...
- londons_explore 6y agoI'd prefer to be in a battle of multiple world-policemen. I'd like local law and international laws from foreign states to conflict sometimes. I'd then like my local government to protect me from the foreign government when I (inevitably) break one set of laws. In turn, that reduces the effectiveness of world-policing
- sosborn 6y agoThe irony of course is that it leads to more situations where there are too many laws to track. Not saying your comment is wrong or anything, it’s just a funny side effect.
- lenkite 6y agoOk, so how do you police a super-power like China ?
- jmnicolas 6y agoIt's a pipe dream: they're weak (no army) and disunited (as COVID response showed).
- Barrin92 6y ago>disunited (as COVID response showed). not sure I understand the logic here but Europe, despite having twice the population of the US, has about as many deaths. The region overall has responded well.
- jmnicolas 6y agoNo unified response, every country had to fend for itself.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoNot sure what unified response would change. It's not diplomacy.
- unishark 6y agoI believe their point was that the response proved disunity exists, not any value judgement on whether disunity is a good or effective thing in itself.
- kortilla 6y agoThe US is not the bar you want to compare with here. The response was essentially “let each of the 50 states decide what to do”.