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To: SuperChief who wrote (494206)

7/9/2022 5:39:55 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 540839

I think the protection we provide is a separate issue.

The thesis is their success is their forming an intelligent parliamentary and social system. That is what failes all other failed nations. The central American countries and many others are just as small and are basket cases.

With regard to the US, what few are willing to say is who has been running this country for the last 50 years?

Think about it, the culture in the south was not willing to get rid of segregation until the US forced them to at the point of a gun and and not until almost 1970! And they have been pissed about ever since, that they can't have segregation!!?? .

And the leaders they elected have been the worst and had the most power e.g. Newt Gingrich, Tom Delay, Phil Graham, McConnell, etc.

So what would one expect from people who thought segregation was fine?. These same people have been running our country for the last 50 years and just like the basket cases their states are, they ran our country right into the shitter with their terrible primitive ideas.

Which are on full display today and make us the laughing stock of the west.

The EU has sort of become like the United states. So they are consolidating.

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Yes, doing well but would they be doing well without protection from USA?

Why don't these country unite for their own protection? Seems a no-brainer that the Nordic countries would find much in common. What about the postage size countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, should they even be countries? Heck AZ has double the population of Lithuania and Estonia has only a little over one million.

Seems like the EU was a good idea but one of the key players, UK, got out in 2020. Scotland wanted to stay
in the EU so voted on leaving the UK in 2014. Stay in UK won 55% to 45%. There is talk of another vote
in the future but no date has been set.

Seems like the larger a country is the harder it is to keep it together UNLESS you are a cruel dictator willing
to murder significant numbers of your subjects.