the EU has demonstrated for decades that by balancing trades, equality and human rights it can prevent conflicts from happening.

Seems to me that most of our friends in the balkans that have memory of the past wars are overall pretty happy about the current state of things, and there hasn't been wars to contend Alsace-Lorraine in 80 years, is it a record already?

War is very much not a given in the civilized world

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u8080 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

To be more precise, two decades, from 1999 when EU countries bombed Yugoslavia and occupied Kosovo.

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muyuu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's why they have a full blown war in their borders and they're powerless without American hardware and intelligence. Also they're right now scrambling to allocate huge investments in weaponry, of course late, but better than never.

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monegator 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

Full blown war: putin scared that more territories will want to join the EU block. No internal wars and more countries wishing to enter the block.

Powerless without american hardware and intelligence: You wish. Big tech is spending so much lobbying our governments in fear of us leaving them for open solutions, or god forbid paying fair amount of taxes.

And regarding intelligence, we would have been so much better without the CIA & co spying our politicians and messing with our governments, aiding and sponsoring domestic right wing terrorism for the past 50 years.

	▲	muyuu 26 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		They're supplicants to NATO, a pathetic situation America shouldn't be striving to replicate.