> A reasonable person would readily agree they're friendly nations. Sure (although a reasonable person might quibble that the EU is not a nation). It's just th

> A reasonable person would readily agree they're friendly nations. Sure (although a reasonable person might quibble that the EU is not a nation). It's just that friendly nations doesn't mean what you think it means. Relevant terms are things like "realpolitik" and "realism". Basically, countries don't do things out of the good of their hearts, because they don't have hearts, they're not people.