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Yeah, they all hated each other and their internal beer hall brawl spilled out over the borders. It wasn’t that Europe was any kind of united force. Maybe it’s time. We’re fucked in the US, now.
Though I gotta admit it’s ironic AF that the Allies set up Germany with a far better constitution/Grundgesezt and government framework than our own Constitution which ended up essentially frozen because politics have gotten so bad that opening it up would have probably destroyed whatever good remained in it thanks to talibangelicals and corporate money.
Europa is too pure and regulated to be hegemony.
Do you think the US became a superpower by being kind and egalitarian and taking it slow? Nah, they came out the gate swinging, uppercut to Hiroshima and a roundhouse to Nagasaki, and it only got worse from there. They watched the old European powers withering under the weight of colonialism and insurrection in Indochina and southeast Asia and said "I'll have a piece of that".
You don't become Hegemon by standardizing power grids and phasing out coal. You become Hegemon by selling your soul to the MIC, spinning up black site torture rooms in countries most people don't even know the names of, funnelling guns and drugs to everyone who will take them, and bringing a fucking bandolier of hand grenades to every knife fight.
I must say that I am prepared to die to defend Europe. It is maybe one of the last causes truly worth fighting for
If even quarter of people feel like me then we cannot be beat, we cannot be defeated. We will meet there on the Vistula river to stand against the darkness
It will only be after my cold dead body that the orcs will destroy this beautiful land. The mountains, the fields, the cities, rivers and forests, the peaceful, good people.
Get this, there's already a thing called the European Union - almost like we're already pretty united! :)
I don't really think further unification is the goal here.
EU already absorbed Switzerland in this pic despite them not wanting it, so there's that.
The top US export is oil.
If you want to do something, wean yourself off oil. Big push for solar, wind, and anything else that doesn't rely on digging up bits of dinosaurs.
Electric vehicles, public transport, bikes, walking.
And as an added bonus, the world gets a little cleaner. Might be important, you know.
> In 2023, renewable energy represented 24.5% of energy consumed in the EU, up from 23.0% in 2022.
They're working on it a lot faster than (most of) the rest of the world!
Power corrupts. No single country should be a global superpower
That's fine, Europe is several countries.
On the contrary, periods of imperial hegemony have been some of the more stable and peaceful episodes of human history. One of them is ending right now.
Unite, but first, launch Orban into space, one-way-ticket kind-of way.
Weird map. The non-Union Balkan states and Norway are cut out, but Switzerland is filled in.
and UK
We just have to through the Bell riots and WW3, but then it’s all tea. Earl gray. Hot. From thee
Yo when tf did Switzerland join?
Same year that UK rejoined lmao.
Only here to say that this picture REALLY makes the scandanavian countries look like a droopy dick n balls.
Why is the forsaken UK still on the map ?
'cause we know this relationship has its ups and downs but isn't over yet
We have too many traitors like Orban in the EU. The work against us.
Anybody who knows the actual history and current reality of european imperialism will not want this at all.
Economically and culturally, Europe is already a superpower. Militarily it isn't, and maybe that's not a terrible thing. Politically, it just seems to have a bias for moving slowly and by consensus, although it responded quickly to COVID and the assault on Ukraine, so it can do what's needed?
It's hard to get them to agree on anything let alone actually coordinate real world actions together. You are going to be waiting a long time.
Sadly a lot of MEPs are in cahoots with Russia and hell bent on destroying the EU.
Cahoots is a strong word. They're all ethnic nationalists who sympathize with the wave of anti-Muslim hysteria echoing through the continent.
But when push comes to shove, they'll start shooting at one another over the border happily enough.
At least for the Dutch alt-right party Forum voor Democratie there's definite proof that they get money from Russia
No, it isn't a strong word at all. They are literally being paid by Putin. They exploit racism and bigotry, right wing populism, in their campaigns, but they aren't necessarily doing that out of personal conviction.