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You simply cannot get it can you? It's the EU melding together the 27 countries in a borderless partnership that has kept the internal peace in Europe. How can they go to war against each other when they have open borders and often cross them to work with each other in each other's countries...

Read what I posted. Achieving peace between the EU member countries which had centuries of previous warring with each other. Peace with external countries is not an EU matter, their function is an internal one. Peace with outsiders is for member countries to determine and that's why they have...

When will you ever learn! The EU is not a government of a country having a foreign policy, neither is it a country so it's not their job. Member countries do have foreign policies, it is their job. Therefore almost your entire post (rant) is irrelevant, inappropriate and unnecessary. The...

Untrue again. I've several times shown how critical I can be of the EU in matters where they could have done different, but I won't criticise them as you so often do for matters entirely beyond their control. In other words, I have a balanced view, recognising the scale of their achievements...

As ever, your very biased hatred of the EU grossly distorts your view. The EU isn't totally dependent on NATO. They have never asked for NATO, it was thrust upon them by the USA. If it disappeared they and their member countries might then have the motivation to put together their own forces...

This is not true. The USA in the form of the CIA created the Euromaiden project to destabilise the Ukraine and get the pro Russian government overthrown. The project succeeded with Euromaiden becoming the Orange Revolution, when with the support of only a quarter of the country the parliament...

As Woosh posted, over decades. It will be a result of the deterioration of NATO and the declining US power relative to China. The European hostility to Russia will diminish as it has on similar previous occasions. It doesn't help either side and is largely inspired by the USA anyway. .

The EU target was for the countries of Europe to unite as one country of Europe, and thus to be a superpower. The member countries have chosen not to so far, the democratic choice and their loss. That will change over time for some of them, due to developing circumstances as NATO fades and...

All good for our e-cars. And BP own Chargemaster, one of the largest charger companies, and are installing rapid charge points in all their garages. The world is inexorably changing. .

It's intentionally both at present, with the intention of becoming entirely political, something I know you've never accepted. I'm forecasting that if Germany shifts toward Russia and China, it will bring the EU with it politically as the head of Europe, with Germany dominant. .

The EU could continue and in line with its aims bring more control of member countries, since the centralisation implicit in that suits any form of left wing governance, especially democratic communism. The centres of power of the three giants would then be Beijing, Moscow and Brussels. Where...

More likely it will take the EU with it, with the NATO concept long gone. .

I don't think they do want the USA protect them, they've not asked for that and Germany has long been in favour or reaching an accord with Russia and co-existing. It's the pushy USA who want to defend Europe against the Russians due to their phobic hatred of communism. But they then want Europe...

Agreed on second deliveries. I took your multiple to mean more and frequent, which did used to happen in busy city commercial areas when post would arrive several times a day into commercial post rooms. Online documents, paperless billing, email and texting has killed the post as we used to...

Reagan's "Star Wars" mark 2. .

No assumption, almost all letters were delivered next day thoughout much of my life and always early in the day. Splitting the post into first and second class is a relatively recent cop out. And we knew who our postman was. Now it seems to be someone different much of the time as if some...

It certainly is, nothing works properly any more. Remember when we all used to receive the post in the morning, sometimes before even leaving for work? Now we have no idea when or even if it will arrive. The Post Office van for this area has just arrived at 6.50 pm and a few minutes ago the...

But Luxembourg would actually make money of it, as they have out of the EU for decades. I think Zlatan would love to see Field Marshal Jean-Claude Juncker in command of an EU army. He'd confuse any enemy. .

Luxembourg of course. ;) .

Some might be, but perhaps not our ones. I've been watching the program on Channel 5 about one of our hunter-killer subs, said to be a documentary but it became a better comedy than some said to be that on TV. It set out on a mission to shadow and protect one of our nuclear missile submarines...