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[โ€“] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months 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

[โ€“] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months 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.

[โ€“] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months 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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[โ€“] sirico@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

shakes baggie of chiles

[โ€“] missandry351@lemmings.world 4 points 3 months ago

Itโ€™s nazis all over here, that said, it canโ€™t be worse than United States of Gilead right now

[โ€“] seeigel@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (9 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.

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[โ€“] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Simply whip up an F35 program overnight. No big.

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