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I think what Americans don't get about the EU is that overregulation beats the hell out of continental war every few decades 🇪🇺

“The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.

…

To achieve these objectives, starting from the very different conditions in which the production of member countries is at present situated, it is proposed that certain transitional measures should be instituted, such as the application of a production and investment plan, the establishment of compensating machinery for equating prices, and the creation of a restructuring fund to facilitate the rationalization of production.”

Peace in Europe needs bureaucracy

“The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible.

…

To achieve these objectives, starting from the very different conditions in which the production of member countries is at present situated, it is proposed that certain transitional measures should be instituted, such as the application of a production and investment plan, the establishment of compensating machinery for equating prices, and the creation of a restructuring fund to facilitate the rationalization of production.”

Peace in Europe needs bureaucracy 

https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu/1945-59/schuman-declaration-may-1950_en

OSS + Rust. My goal in life is the ability to stop thinking at will

I think the EU is generally poorly understood, and while it's fun to shit on it sometimes, it won't be that fun when it gets disintegrated. And that's possible mostly because there are people who just won't stop to reflect who crafted the narrative they're happily spreading.