• ambitious_bones@lemmy.world
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    According to a leaked version of the Trump administration’s US national security strategy, the White House is planning to call on Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland to quit the EU.

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      I mean Hungary already acts like it’s not part of it when it comes to anything regarding foreign policies. At this point I’m they seem to just be mooching off the economic benefits.

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        I don’t think they’d quit though. They’re benefiting too much. They bark but won’t bite I think.

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        I mean Hungary already acts like it’s not part of it

        Or they do, and everybody else acts as if the EU has to be a country like the US.

        Unanimous means that a country cannot be forced to act against their will. That was the promise of the EU, economic benefits with political independence. Demanding more is bait and switch.

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              9 days ago

              I noticed that nearly everything that I saw that was ill conceived, misleading, inaccurate or downright wrong, missing the while point, or just plain nasty in this thread was written by you.

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                Thanks for the feedback. I will try to scale down the nastyness but I have no idea how to be more correct. As far as I know my statements are correct. What do you think is wrong? E.g. in this thread, originally, the countries were supposed to be independent. Of course, some people have always wanted the EU to be a single country, but that’s not how it was sold.

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                  Of course, some people have always wanted the EU to be a single country, but that’s not how it was sold.

                  In 1993?! Or 1957?! Make the EU the EEC again!? The only good way to live is in the past? Back to the golden age of low consumer, worker and human rights! Less economic power and regulatory influence globally! Yay! /s

                  How reactionary is that?

                  But it’s not just that. It’s the other bad takes. They’re nearly all yours.

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                    The EU is not the single source of good. Of course there are advantages, especially for countries with corrupt governments. But the EU is also corrupt, and giving the EU all that power will give that power to corrupt people.

                    The Euro was introduced explicitly with conditions that each country pays their own dept which means that still at that time, the distinction of states was important.

                    It’s the other bad takes. They’re nearly all yours.

                    Are they wrong? Could it be that you just don’t like them because they reveal problems of the EU that you don’t want to solve?