• fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Yeah, i know ☹️ Life’s unfair. While the idea of one incredibly powerful union scares me (see what they did in the middle east) the other countries are always going to fuck up the balance.

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah the middle east is a giant shit show that’s about to get even worse if trump has anything to say about it. But if it were a union of smaller countries like the EU, they’d (hopefully) keep each other in check.

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        21 hours ago

        But if it were a union of smaller countries like the EU, they’d (hopefully) keep each other in check.

        Since the Romans withdrew circa 450 the European Nations were almost always at war with one another until 1945; nearly 2,000 years of conflict! The peace they’ve enjoyed post WWII is because they were focused on an external threat (U.S.S.R.) and the United States functioned as a playground monitor.

        So historically speaking they will absolutely NOT “keep each other in check”.

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      21 hours ago

      While the idea of one incredibly powerful union scares me (see what they did in the middle east)

      America’s adventurism in the ME was but a blip compared to the literal centuries that the Brits and the French have spent fucking up that area of the world. Does no one study history anymore?