• WideEyedStupid@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I was going to say this. Trump thinks the EU already is what I wish it will become.

      Maybe his efforts will push us further into that direction though?

      • samus12345@lemm.ee
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        7 days ago

        One of the good things to come from this is an end to the hegemony of the US. Now I have to hope the rest of the world will choose to be better as a result of it.

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      As a resident of a Continental Country that is not the US, we’ve pretty much always seen Europe as a single, monolithic thing. It’s hard for us to grasp how something like France, which is just slightly bigger than Minas Gerais, 4th largest state of Brazil, is a completely separate thing from the rest.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
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        6 days ago

        Honestly, that just seems like ignorance. It’s like you don’t know that France likes wine and Germany drinks beer. Or that the two were on opposite sides of two world wars.

        • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 days ago

          It’s like you don’t know that Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo were on opposite sides of the Farrapos war or Rio Grande do Sul likes wine and São Paulo drinks more beer.

          Regional cultural differences and history don’t come into question when it comes to how one country perceives others in the side of the world, so please, refrain from those simplistic ad-hominem arguments.