You really need convincing of one of the most elementary principles of geopolitics and statebuilding, a premise that goes back to the literal roots of states as an organized body of human social construction? You are ignorant of something so remedial that explaining is at best condescending no matter how I'd try not to be?
Then your argument is every bit the racist chicanery that I suspected it was all along and you realize that this is exactly what I was stating it was in the first place, and now you're trying to evade it, and doing so poorly at that.
The EU is seen as a world power for reasons of what it might do, and what it might become. Not what it is, especially not when Poland and Hungary are merrily ripping parts of its geopolitical illusions to shreds and its financial basis is making silk purses out of sow's ears. Treating the EU as an actual as opposed to potential power requires at best the delusion that white countries in Europe are competent and possessed of power due to being white and European and there has been precious little in the last 200 years of European history to justify that on small or large occasions.
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Date: 14/8/20 14:46 (UTC)Then your argument is every bit the racist chicanery that I suspected it was all along and you realize that this is exactly what I was stating it was in the first place, and now you're trying to evade it, and doing so poorly at that.
The EU is seen as a world power for reasons of what it might do, and what it might become. Not what it is, especially not when Poland and Hungary are merrily ripping parts of its geopolitical illusions to shreds and its financial basis is making silk purses out of sow's ears. Treating the EU as an actual as opposed to potential power requires at best the delusion that white countries in Europe are competent and possessed of power due to being white and European and there has been precious little in the last 200 years of European history to justify that on small or large occasions.