Originally posted by Columbus
I honestly don't think this would cause peace.
It isn't causing war in Europe.
In fact the whole point of the European Union in the first place, just after WWII, was to prevent things like the two world wars! It seems to have
worked, so much so that half of the countries behind the "old Iron Curtain" want or already have joined.
None of this will make the slightest difference to the thinking in the US for one simple reason....they have NEVER had a war fought on its own soil (a
civil war does not count!). I have always supected that the lack of flattened cities and millions of dead civilians is behind a lot of the US's
enthusiasm for guns and war as a solution to problems rather than cooperation.
There's also a thing called world history, you find out about it in books and strangely enough its not all US based

. Throughout history nations
have amalgamated, markets consolidated etc etc. A European, American and Asian economic block are all inevitable and so is a single unified world.
But it will occur either by stealth or cooperation. Only by cooperation will it occur in the hands of the people. Fight the inevitable and it will
occur by stealth with all power in the hands of a few.