El Lazaro wrote:Ethel mermania wrote:And for most of human history we have not had nuclear weapons, for a nation to base its policies based on nukes non existence would be asinine at best, suicidal at worst.
I am saying that being different from the status quo is not a basis for rejecting change, especially since this status quo is a small blip in history which wouldn’t have happened without change. Permanence is unnatural as far as civilization goes.
All politics is temporary, all humanity is for that matter. We can only deal with the here and now. the political and cultural differences between European states do not lend themselves to political union. In 100 years time, who knows maybe it will make sense.