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Serious question, it is always the fallback answer for why we need the EU, but what has it ever done to stop it.
Lets look at other continents North America, any wars since 1945?
OK that one is a bit easy, only 3 countries, how about South America, any world wars?
Right lets zoom over to Asia, lets forget the ones that the USA created, any world wars, massive multinational killing fields? A few countries happy to kill their own people, a civil war or 2 and the Korean war is still technically going on but apart from opportunist expansion by China post war any big wars?
We do have Africa and the Middle east though, and those are a bit of a mess. No world war yet, but who knows, maybe they need the EU more the Europe?
We should start a franchise model and rent it out to the other continents, its already proven to be really great at preventing wars in bloc's of peaceful democratic globalised trading nations.
Not so great at preventing crippling intrastate austerity that leave 50% of some demographics unemployed with no hope of getting a job but we'll gloss over that on the sales pitch.
Lets look at other continents North America, any wars since 1945?
OK that one is a bit easy, only 3 countries, how about South America, any world wars?
Right lets zoom over to Asia, lets forget the ones that the USA created, any world wars, massive multinational killing fields? A few countries happy to kill their own people, a civil war or 2 and the Korean war is still technically going on but apart from opportunist expansion by China post war any big wars?
We do have Africa and the Middle east though, and those are a bit of a mess. No world war yet, but who knows, maybe they need the EU more the Europe?
We should start a franchise model and rent it out to the other continents, its already proven to be really great at preventing wars in bloc's of peaceful democratic globalised trading nations.
Not so great at preventing crippling intrastate austerity that leave 50% of some demographics unemployed with no hope of getting a job but we'll gloss over that on the sales pitch.