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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They let themselves be subservient to the Americans cause they didn't trust each other (understandable given the shared history of the continent).

Now that the USA has flipped the switch so dramatically given Trump is unpredictable and incompetent, I hope the Europeans realise they can trust each other more than their far away who doesn't give 2 shits about them. I'm optimistic but whilst they can do stuff for Ukraine, I'm not sure how they will go about EU reform (if they can even get it done given Orban exists). They need to be bold and I'm not sure they will all be on the same page for that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cause they didn't trust each other (understandable given the >shared history of the continent).

Oh man, don't you ever underestimate the most important rule of all time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's not the spot to touch if you want Europe to rise again ...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 20 hours ago

yeah, in the next lifetime, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does a superpower need to be a united sovereign state? The EU as itself can function as a superpower despite being made up of separate sovereign states

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

To exercise the amount of economic and military power to be a world super power you need centralized command, control and decision making. The EU won't be able to take on russia if each state is able to back out of the war, and a state isn't fully sovereign if it can't make it's own decisions on going to war.

Same with economic policy, if one state is able to opt out of the free movement of goods and people then the benefits of a single market are diminished, but if a country can't make it's own decisions on trade and immigration policies then they've relinquished some of there sovereignty.

Institutions like the EU already do some of this but it'll need to be a bit stronger to be on the level of the u.s. and China in terms of the central power it possesses. Doing so buts up against the euro-skeptic movement though, which holds the EU back.

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