@Arron_banks And now for the second part of your remedial education for today, pointless as it may be. NATO was established to guarantee the integrity of western Europe's borders against the potential for invasion by the Warsaw Pact, primarily the Soviet Union and East Germany. ➡️
@Arron_banks The establishment of the EU's predecessors - the EEC and the ECSC - was designed to prevent internal conflict in western Europe based on economic disagreements which had been the pretext for many of Europe's conflicts over the centuries. ➡️
@Arron_banks Even the United States - under the Truman and Eisenhower administrations - recognised that an economically-integrated and politically-united western Europe was better for the US because it removed the likelihood of the US becoming involved in another western European war… ➡️
@Arron_banks … which allowed it to concentrate on what it - and western Europe - perceived as the greater threat of Soviet incursions into central and south-eastern Europe and west Asia, as was also the intended (and partially failed) mission of SEATO and CENTO. ➡️
@Arron_banks The EEC (and latterly the EU) create peace via prosperity making it economically unthinkable and actually pointless for wars to occur in the economic sphere of influence of the EU; capital and people can follow goods and services to create an egalitarian Europe … ➡️
@Arron_banks … where a rising tide genuinely lifts all boats so long as all the boat owners agree to live by a common set of rules and standards. In so doing, it further removes the likelihood of economic conflict which is what people like you thrive on. ➡️
@Arron_banks Maybe you should have spent more time in the school library reading books as opposed to being on top of the school roof stealing the lead to make a few quid and getting expelled.
Just a thought. ⏹️
Just a thought. ⏹️
