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I do. I hope they'll prove me wrong, but the last decade or so has been a string of political failures. Crimea, Brexit, the war in Ukraine.. etc.
by stodor89 1y ago
I do. I hope they'll prove me wrong, but the last decade or so has been a string of political failures. Crimea, Brexit, the war in Ukraine.. etc.
- rich_sasha 1y agoPolitical failures compared to what other large bureaucracy? It is miles ahead, IMHO, US federal government or UN. Hard to compare to China. Crimea is complex, but I can't really see what the EU could have done to prevent Brexit, while keeping itself whole. UK was so desperate to leave, they ended up crashing out. I personally think the EU gets the blame for a whole load of things that are not really in their remit, while not getting the credit for other things it does well. Like hate speech laws, or the other things I listed.
- surgical_fire 1y agoI even aegue that Brexit was a boon to EU. Despite losing a relatively large economy in the block, the results of Brexit were so embarrassingly disastrous for the UK, that even the far right parties in the mainland, that had the common talking point of leaving the EU, had to switch their rhetoric to "reform" the EU (which is weakening it from the inside). Leaving the EU became sort of unpopular.