Damn! You sound like a scholar of some sort, Lady Lys XD Long time btw! College sucking the life outta me and kittentons of assignments and kitten! Sorry I couldn't even drop in for a hi! College has been a bit....ruthless these days XDOHHH!! My lovelies! You talk politics when I'm not there?!
I'm pretty sure I'll become a bit pedantic here. So pardon me dearests.
Come un dito in un occhio.
May I voice an opposing opinion pretty please dearest?
The EU is a work in progress. The US took years to work properly, and it started from a political union. The EU, other than being made up by countries with different languages and millenarian history (most of which was of wars and squabbles and antipathy between each others), starts from an economic union (starting from a political union was clearly impossible with nation-states that were so consolidated). It was a gamble but I'm sure it's slowly going towards a political union, but this takes times, and effort, and a great deal of will. People are much more inclined to look only at their backyard, so even only the fact that it exists is a good thing. But we are talking big scale politics and nation buildings, and the Union is still young.
Ah, good old Spinelli's words on the Ventotene Manifesto.
Yeah, I'm pretty much clearly a Europeist.
But today for the first time, looking at the European Parliament, one could see a real political dispute going on. I think it's a good sign. And I see way too many people expecting the most perfect system happening in a snap of the fingers. This kitten takes time.
(Plus, if one wants to think in terms of realpolitik and not of ideologies, european nations are small, very small, when compared with the other 'competitors' so banding together is quite the rational thing to do)
Eh, nation building has always been a long journey, but we only read of it in the history books, and the difference in print between between 1800 and 1900 is not that big, but we are kind of living this history now.
More than the idea of the 'big bad German' (oh, come tornano certe cose!) I'd say that the most power is in the strongest and most stable economy which, let's be frank, couldn't be anyone else but Germany. Paradoxically, Merkel is way less against the Greek debt restructuring than other small countries like Lithuania and Latvia.
You are perfectly right when you say it exists only economically, but this is because it was chosen to be this way. There were a kitten-ton of theories that said that a political union would follow an economic one. This of course has not proven to be as smooth a passage as it was believed it would be, plus the 2008 crisis got in the middle of it all and kittened things up even more. But I'm pretty positive in the long run we'll get to a more politically integrated system.
Still, I'm pretty sure we can bet our asses that Greece will be saved, especially in the light of the impending doom of the Chinese bubble. (ps. nun lo dicono in giro, ma hanno tutti le chiappe strettissime per questo).
Aaaannnnyway, based on your context of the words, I guess you guys are offering two sides of the coin. The way you describe UN, pretty much sounds like our country just on a different scale. I'll agree on your perspective when you say that the nations having different languages and history and stuff, sticking together for obvious reasons and all that; whatever you said for that matter. But my question to you rests on a specific term you used in there; it's 'Political Union'. If I am getting you right, then this whole thing is leaning towards forming a nation-state kinda thing. Correct me if I am wrong though. You are the master on the subject XD But do you think its really possible? Like you said, one cannot expect a politically perfect system at a snap of the fingers but my question to you is, is it possible given the differences and past rivalries between the countries? Because this is going to consume decades of councils and decisions and fights and debates ad controversies and kitten. Like I mentioned before, I have absolutely NO clue about the stable economies right now. So whatever I am saying might seem like firing an arrow in the dark. So about the system you are tryna' say, the EU as the point of context, is it sufficient for the revival of economies taking into consideration the monstrous debt that Greece is currently sinking in? I still am inclined to believe that political debate at a time like this is certainly not fruitful which is infact contrary to your opinion.
P.S - The concept of nation-state did prove to be effective in ancient times though. But it still did not comprise of the unions unlike now
This reminds me of my old debating days on this forum when Naruto made sense
Edited by narusaku256, 08 July 2015 - 08:19 PM.
















