The EU's choice is more like "bow to a monster" or "become a monster." Big powers act like big powers. If Europe as a whole becomes like the US, then it will start acting internationally in many of the same ways as the US.
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Why? Itβs not written in stone.
Because humans are humans and nations act the way they do because of the environment they exist in. When you become a single massive federated nation, you have very different incentives acting on you than when you're a smaller country.
Or are you acting out of some sense of European exceptionalism? If so, you're already well on the way to acting like the United States!
Why should it? EU has a large economy and a lot of people. If it managed to unite, at least when facing a threat, it could easilybe a major global power.
The conservative credo "the past defines the possible" or "nothing new is ever conceivable"
A new power learning the lessons from the past? Can't have that!
The US, China, and the USSR (cant think of Russain Federation examples...) all have cases in which their involvement of influence were positive things.
It is the duty of the priviledged and powerful to empower the unpriviledged.
then it will start acting internationally in many of the same ways as the US.
Have you heard of colonization?
The only way to have a single foreign policy is through federalisation!
Enslaving.
Is that Neuschwanstein or the Disney Castle behind the EU flag?
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I would be walking somewhere in the grass because I want neither.
How do all those countries using CFAs with half of their national currency reserves being held hostage in Paris feel about this?
Not that the situation isn't far better than American, Chinese, or Russians vassalization, but let's not prentend the EU doesn't engage in rampant neocolonialosm, the knowing exploitation of vast amounts of illegal migrant labor via human trafficking, human rights violations to "protect" Fortress Europa, etc etc.
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With that start, can we be sure that the left path doesn't also lead to the right castle?
However, after US President John F. Kennedy expressed his displeasure about this to the West German ambassador to the United States, the Bundestag ratified the treaty with a preamble which called on France and West Germany to pursue tight cooperation with the United States; the eventual admission of the United Kingdom to the EEC; the achievement of a free trade accord in the framework of the GATT; and for the West's military integration in NATO under US leadership
