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Originally posted by Yelof
I have heard that opinion before and I think it a bit skewed, I don't think many feel the purpose of the EU is to compete against the US*
but instead it comes from two realisations
1) The realisation that the two european civil wars of the 20C were disasterous and pointless and must never be repeated
and
2) the best way to avoid such wars is to bind europe together in connections of intercommerce and mutual cooperation.
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It goes right back to the original purpose of NATO and other European alliances:
1) to keep Russia out
2) to keep the Germans down &
3) to keep the US in.
A united Europe will only keep the US engaged. Details of how those objectives apply have changed. But fundamental objectives still remain. A united Europe will always hold US attention.