I never liked my country being a part of EU, we never even voted to join. We voted to join a trade union which later became a much bigger thing, but we never vores to join what it became, and i don’t think we would have.
We never took the euro, but our money is just tied to it, so it is always valued about 7,5:1 which makes it basically… Euro with different artwork.
But America is so fucked, i’ve always wanted us to disconnect more from them, and lately it seems hard to do that without strengthening EU, and starting to produce our own weapons.
Look at me. Advocating for weapons factories… What the fuck.
Well, there are people here who are better versed in the state of the EU and western europe in general, but it seems to me the weapons aspect of things largely comes down to imperial interests wanting to shape the region into a weapon, not just produce weapons. Like how Ukraine was effectively hollowed out and turned into a military outpost, with its people conscripted to try to break Russia.
They keep fear-mongering about the “threat of Russia” and as I understand it, want to cut social services in favor of military spending. This will not produce countries that can defend themselves better; it will devolve the places into barely functioning societies that depend heavily on military as industry to make it seem like it’s working at all (which is to some extent the situation the US is in already).
What EU countries need is what all societies in history benefit from, which is to value human life and work toward peace. But as long as imperialists are running the show, any picture of peace is going to be distorted by their class interests in domination and exploitation of the world. Which includes having bogeyman threats like Russia, China, etc., that they will tell you are the monster under the bed that is coming for you.
I never liked my country being a part of EU, we never even voted to join. We voted to join a trade union which later became a much bigger thing, but we never vores to join what it became, and i don’t think we would have.
We never took the euro, but our money is just tied to it, so it is always valued about 7,5:1 which makes it basically… Euro with different artwork.
But America is so fucked, i’ve always wanted us to disconnect more from them, and lately it seems hard to do that without strengthening EU, and starting to produce our own weapons.
Look at me. Advocating for weapons factories… What the fuck.
Well, there are people here who are better versed in the state of the EU and western europe in general, but it seems to me the weapons aspect of things largely comes down to imperial interests wanting to shape the region into a weapon, not just produce weapons. Like how Ukraine was effectively hollowed out and turned into a military outpost, with its people conscripted to try to break Russia.
They keep fear-mongering about the “threat of Russia” and as I understand it, want to cut social services in favor of military spending. This will not produce countries that can defend themselves better; it will devolve the places into barely functioning societies that depend heavily on military as industry to make it seem like it’s working at all (which is to some extent the situation the US is in already).
What EU countries need is what all societies in history benefit from, which is to value human life and work toward peace. But as long as imperialists are running the show, any picture of peace is going to be distorted by their class interests in domination and exploitation of the world. Which includes having bogeyman threats like Russia, China, etc., that they will tell you are the monster under the bed that is coming for you.
What country are you talking about? The schengen area is for trade, didn’t need to join the whole union for that
Schengen is a recent treaty, there were european trade orgs before that grew into the EU. For example the Montanunion.