Originally posted by blue1
NUKE you've got to stop reading those conspiracy websites. IT's upsetting you and filling your head with mad ideas.
The EU is not some sort monolithic militaristic bloc. It consists of a number very nationalistic and individualistic countries come together to trade with each other and prevent those periodic European wars which came along every thirty or forty years. It also serves to prevent one particular country from dominating the rest: ie Germany.
All member countries are liberal democracies as is America and no two liberal democracies has gone to war with each other EVER. (Or any two countries with a McDonald's BTW).
The only way there could be a war with America was if the USA turned into some sort of mad paranoid fundamentalist right wing regime who started wars against countries it thought might become a threat to them one day or if the American people thought themselves superior to everyone else in the world and decided make sure they knew it.
Now we know that could never happen, don't we?
By the way, I don't read many websites, let alone nut-job one's. I actually thought this through on my own, using my fairly high capacity for logical thought.
I think a lot misunderstood my post. I meant that the EU member states, being a diverse group, may someday find they have less sovereignty than the thought they would have and that the combination of the world court mixed with that could be a powder keg in europe. I didnt say the EU was a military block.
I see a major conflict potential within the EU due to the laws binding EU states together..... mostly the financial ones that govern how a state must run it's economy. At some point there is going to be a state that doesn't quite like being told how to run it's economy. Maybe they don't measure up at some point.
These states will be unable to withdraw from the EU at some point without financial ruin. the UK will be effected too.
Toss in the world court and it's justice transcending these nations with it's justices not being acountable to anyone, plus EU control over the economies...and you have a real problem brewing in my opinion.
I also see a chance that a war could result and that the US could be drawn into it.
