EU expansion needs instability and weakness. It always has done. The original founding members of the Coal and Steel Community had been destroyed by war and shorn of national purpose. The UK and others joined the EEC after they too found themselves lost and wracked by economic instability. The Eastern countries joined after 50 years of Soviet government had hollowed out governing capability and its collapse had left them economically isolated.
The Balkans are unstable but definitely not weak. The strength is the cause of the instability: strength in character, history and destiny. This is the critical impediment to joining the EU. The EU’s approach is working like a charm. It is hosing with cash all the political elites on all sides and the whole political system, weakening the link between all political groups, at all levels, and their electorates. With no representation, whatever the public think will be irrelevant.
As A J P Taylor said, joining the EEC was not a policy, but showed the absence of a policy.
Paul O
1 year ago
The EU is just one of an elite group of organisations that are in expansionist mode. Others such as NATO, WHO, UN, DAVOS, WEF and the IMF are all jostling for global control. These organisations are no longer acting on our behalf (if they ever did), but are doing everything in their power to increase their own importance and control of the global stage.
Totally agree – all unelected bodies looking to take control by stealth.
DAVOS, WEF are probably the most sinister of the bunch, aiming to undertake “state capture” of major western democracies.
gg G
1 year ago
Great analysis. The majority of Macedonians are against joining EU. We have endured thirty years of humiliation in the name of joining EU. EU has shown nothing but arrogance, disrespect, and willingness to sacrifice the Macedonians and Macedonia in the name of their social engineering experiments. For them Macedonia and the Macedonians are just lab mice with which they can play and on which they can test various ways of obtaining a complete control over nations and their people by supporting coups, installing corrupt governments, changing constitutions, oppressing the population and supporting genocide. When it comes to Macedonia, EU has shown no boundaries, no morals, no compassion and no principles.
Last edited 1 year ago by gg G
Ormond Otvos
1 year ago
Balkanization has a meaning, and the foolish resistance to the idea of cooperation and centralized structure merely repeats the conditions for a third world war.
Don’t trust someone so dedicated to his ideology that he would parallel the EU to Putin’s empire-building.
…the current iteration of the EU is not an adequate cooperation/cenralisation structure however. If it abandoned its mission of creating a single political entity, (and a democratically unaccountable one at that) then it might have a long term future. Otherwise, technologically driven market forces, will eventually redress the downsides of ‘balkanization’.
“Don’t trust someone so dedicated to his ideology” I don’t, Ormond, which is why I so distrust those people who think that the EU is the solution to any problem.
EU expansion needs instability and weakness. It always has done. The original founding members of the Coal and Steel Community had been destroyed by war and shorn of national purpose. The UK and others joined the EEC after they too found themselves lost and wracked by economic instability. The Eastern countries joined after 50 years of Soviet government had hollowed out governing capability and its collapse had left them economically isolated.
The Balkans are unstable but definitely not weak. The strength is the cause of the instability: strength in character, history and destiny. This is the critical impediment to joining the EU. The EU’s approach is working like a charm. It is hosing with cash all the political elites on all sides and the whole political system, weakening the link between all political groups, at all levels, and their electorates. With no representation, whatever the public think will be irrelevant.
As A J P Taylor said, joining the EEC was not a policy, but showed the absence of a policy.
The EU is just one of an elite group of organisations that are in expansionist mode. Others such as NATO, WHO, UN, DAVOS, WEF and the IMF are all jostling for global control. These organisations are no longer acting on our behalf (if they ever did), but are doing everything in their power to increase their own importance and control of the global stage.
Totally agree – all unelected bodies looking to take control by stealth.
DAVOS, WEF are probably the most sinister of the bunch, aiming to undertake “state capture” of major western democracies.
Great analysis. The majority of Macedonians are against joining EU. We have endured thirty years of humiliation in the name of joining EU. EU has shown nothing but arrogance, disrespect, and willingness to sacrifice the Macedonians and Macedonia in the name of their social engineering experiments. For them Macedonia and the Macedonians are just lab mice with which they can play and on which they can test various ways of obtaining a complete control over nations and their people by supporting coups, installing corrupt governments, changing constitutions, oppressing the population and supporting genocide. When it comes to Macedonia, EU has shown no boundaries, no morals, no compassion and no principles.
Balkanization has a meaning, and the foolish resistance to the idea of cooperation and centralized structure merely repeats the conditions for a third world war.
Don’t trust someone so dedicated to his ideology that he would parallel the EU to Putin’s empire-building.
…the current iteration of the EU is not an adequate cooperation/cenralisation structure however. If it abandoned its mission of creating a single political entity, (and a democratically unaccountable one at that) then it might have a long term future. Otherwise, technologically driven market forces, will eventually redress the downsides of ‘balkanization’.
“Don’t trust someone so dedicated to his ideology”
I don’t, Ormond, which is why I so distrust those people who think that the EU is the solution to any problem.