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You mean the very thing that made the USA the single world superpower by allowing it to act as a unified block instead of a pile of constantly bickering and som
by moffkalast 3y ago
You mean the very thing that made the USA the single world superpower by allowing it to act as a unified block instead of a pile of constantly bickering and sometimes warring states? Yeah gee why would we think that.
- scarface_74 3y agoHow has that been working out for the EU?
- hef19898 3y agoLook no further than the UK to judge for yourself.
- moffkalast 3y agoSo far so good I guess? The Euro/single market has made trade and daily lives so much easier and grasped fiscal control out of individual states' incompetent hands, Schengen makes travel a breeze. EU funding continues to equalize development throughout so that we can function more fairly as a continent (in economic terms). Erasmus programmes letting people study across the EU are great, the food safety regulations and support for farmers are pretty good and GDPR has been fantastic so far. The current Commission does impotently scream its fascist views, but luckily they can't do shit without the Parliament's approval, which unfortunately for them happens to be an actual democratic entity. As long as the checks and balances continue to work we'll be fine. Obviously there hasn't been anything done in terms of a centralized military, but we'll get there eventually and NATO is a decent stand-in for now. And the train network is also still quite a train wreck when it comes to international connections which I'm also hopeful will be eventually addressed. But it won't ever be without a federal authority demanding it, because each country fundamentally only cares about itself. And of course the EU's greatest achievement, forcing Logitech to finally drop microUSB lmao.
- rayiner 3y agoDoes the US system seem like an asset to you?
- malermeister 3y agoNo, but it's size and focused power does, which is why the EU isn't trying to copy it 1:1
- rayiner 3y agoIs size and power the important thing?
- malermeister 3y agoIf you don't want to be bullied by the bigger and more powerful, yes.
- rayiner 3y agoWas Sweden being bullied before the EU?
- malermeister 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_German_troops_through_Finland_and_Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_German_troops_throu... Yup.