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Re:Imperial Delusions by rantwasp on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:10PM (#27868421)
the EU is not an empire. and it’s members are loosely coupled at best. Look at what happened to the UK: they just got their toys and left.

the EU just does not have the cohesion to act like and empire and conquer anything. It’s more like a big market

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Re:Imperial Delusions by namelessoracle on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:33PM (#27868617)
So was the US once. All it takes is a big external or internal threat to get power centralized....
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Re:Imperial Delusions by rantwasp on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:04PM (#27868857)
yes but no.

us was formed roughly around the same time (+/- couple hundred years).

the states in the EU have a long history (thousands of years) and a long tradition of doing things their way.

i’m not ruling out the possibility but I think it’s highly unlikely

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Re:Imperial Delusions by navaati on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:00PM (#27868829)
Let's just hope it'll be done without a Civil War, then...
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