> The entire European Union project is a direct result of the failure of colonialism - if we cannot be colonisers competing over far away resources then it make

> The entire European Union project is a direct result of the failure of colonialism - if we cannot be colonisers competing over far away resources then it makes sense that we should start playing nice together, without war, and present ourselves externally as a single, more powerful organism. Why wage war in Europe when you can peacefully exploit the Global South? > Colonialism itself did not stop in 1945, Yeah I guess France has its whole neocolonialism— > not at all, in fact the very last European (or European/Asian) empire is on its last stretch trying to re-colonise Ukraine. Oh. I guess that too.