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The EU is at heart the European peace project, and it very much still applies. I think your assessment of whatever the "specific condition" is, is wrong.
by SideburnsOfDoom 6mo ago
The EU is at heart the European peace project, and it very much still applies.
I think your assessment of whatever the "specific condition" is, is wrong.
- laughing_man 6mo agoLately, sure. But for most of that time the threat from the Soviet Union was the heart of the European peace project. Without the USSR the fractures in the EU look to be getting more serious, at least from the outside. Russia's invasion of Ukraine will probably save either the EU or NATO, but probably not both.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo agoOdd take, as the EU was founded as a peace project (1) and external threats of invasion obviously are not. But please, no more of these idiosyncratic opinions. 1) source, 1950: https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1945-59/schuman-declaration-may-1950_en https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-histor...
- laughing_man 6mo agoNot every opinion you disagree with can be reasonably labeled idiosyncratic. You say the EU was founded as a peace project, but a less idealistic view would be the EU was founded as a Franco-German alliance to control the rest of Europe.
- SideburnsOfDoom 6mo agoThank you for expressing your views, but this conversation is of no further interest to me.