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Israel-Gaza Megathread #2

This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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An increasingly centralized EU could be a world power if it takes the direction that the US did early on and gradually become a single state. Barring that, no single EU state is powerful enough to qualify, and too restrained by the rest of the EU to flex the requiref muscles.

That's always how the EU, and each step of centralization, was sold. But who knows, maybe superpowerdom is just around the corner.

I mean, it's still a long ways off from being centralized enough. It doesn't even have a single unified military structure. The change a few years ago to be able to take on debt at the federal level was a big move in the right(?) direction though.

I mean, it's still a long ways off from being centralized enough. It doesn't even have a single unified military structure.

for start, idea of EU-as-a-superstate does not even have a clear support

it does not even have well unified goals, and even shared projects to produce weaponry were far from success as different countries have massively different needs and priorities

Right now "single unified military structure" is nonstarter. Though there are some very local unifications.

Well yes, that's the point of the boil-the-frog style gradual centralization. I don't expect them to achieve it anytime soon. More like 100 years from now.

Or something that will end up dragging the continent to the bottom, because the whole structure is corrupt by design. We'll find out eventually, I suppose.