>You tend to get downvoted. When you write hilarious nonsense like this
Can you name anything the EU has done well?
Can you name anything the EU has done well?
Removed internal borders, so you can travel from Denmark to Spain without 5 border crossings.
Created a common market, so you can order an item from a German web shop as a Belgium citizen without hurdles.
Made war between European countries economically unattractive because economies are closely intertwined.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/19/europe...
It's from 2012, but the vast majority of what's said there is still true.
Although the creation of the EU was motivated in large part to prevent the recurrence of that sort of badness, the EU does not have the power to restrain the militaries of the individual European countries. Note that the EU was shown not to have the power to compel the Italian government that came to power because of the general election of March 2018 to adhere to EU regulations on deficit spending.
Nowadays war between France and Germany is close to as absurd a thought as a war between Calafornia and Texas is. It's not remotely comparable to 1900-1950.
Russia is the largest threat for European countries, but currently an attack on a NATO member seems unlikely.
Inter-war period was hardly one of economical integration, considered that most of European countries were engaged in economic war with other - eg. Poland had no economic exchange with its neighbours.
Second, the US were not a nice place to live in 1861, while Europe was. Time changes.
Also, throwing it weight around on the geopolitical stage has been proven more then useful for european nations, compared to getting picked off by either china/USA/Russia.