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

I'm not getting out of bed for anything less than spices or gold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

shakes baggie of chiles

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 month 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.

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

As an American, yes please, because we can't get our shit together as the mutated, corrupt, idiotic half's monster is running roughshod over our wishy-washy, whiny, "centrist" half's.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an American with an insanely good job and life square in middle class, I'll fucking move over there in a heartbeat.

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

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

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

It’s nazis all over here, that said, it can’t be worse than United States of Gilead right now

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It will never be. It cannot be.

We all know how slow a democracy is. It takes a major event or crisis to stir up politicians to act in a timely manner and with vigor.

Now imagine the absolute dumpster fire that would need to burn to get 27 democracies to get their shit together. I doubt anything short of a full-scale invasion of EU territory by Russia would do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The US was, for better or worse, a sort-of functioning democracy until the late 2010s. And it did quite well.

All it needed was a russian agent infiltrating the white house to damage the country