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[-] tal@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the eastern countries were not run by prostitutes they’d split and form their own block.

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Well, you're Serbian, yes? You are not in the EU. And you do have CEFTA. And you've got that Open Balkan thing.

But you don't want just that, because it's small, yes? Same thing applies to the EU at a larger scale.

Thing is -- something that I usually point out to people from Germanic EU musing about how cool it would be if they could go break off into their own bloc -- is that none of the Germanic/Latin/Slavic blocs are all that large on their own. Individually, you've got something like the population of a Brazil.

I'm in the US, and we're expected to bypass the EU in population this century, and we're a lot more-politically-integrated. Even with that, we're the shrimp among the largest powers -- as China and India develop, they're gonna get a lot beefier in terms of clout than they are today, even if today they're poor, because they can leverage that population.

So if the EU says "okay, not only am I gonna stay somewhat politically-not-integrated at the bloc level, but I'm gonna split into a couple of blocs" and on top of that have a smaller population than anyone else even before the bloc pie starts getting cut up, it's gonna be tough to get enough population to have a lot of clout, I think.

I mean, that's an option, but I'm saying that it's inevitably going to impact the EU's position in the world.

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