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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by kergonath on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:01PM (#35852800)
> nobody wants Russia and especially the EU, which was mostly built on the basis of confrontation with Russia

This is laughably misinformed. What the E.U. was built on has absolutely nothing to do with Russia. There have been ups and downs over the last couple of centuries, but neither France nor Germany are particularly russophobe.

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Re:Russians Seem Interested in My Book About How Dictatorshi... by local_crmdgeon on Sunday May 07, 2023 @03:53PM (#35855000)
Yeah, I'm not pro-EU but the bloc was originally a Coal and Steel trading pact. It expanded from there as deeper integration became advantageous.
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