[hjrnunes]

European wars, particularly the nastier ones are born out of hegemony and counter-hegemony. The EU was bound to be an hegemonic construct dominated by the country that could dominate it - which basically means France, Germany or Great Britain. Turned out to be Germany.

The utopia of a united Europe is what caused all of the devastating wars - whether it was under the guise of a Spanish empire, a Napoleonic empire or a German reich. Whether it is done by military, political or economic power, it always backfires.

We are different people. What we have in common is mostly Christian religion and Christian morals. Or rather the purified, distilled secularised version of it called "humanism" now.

But some visionary always comes with this radical new idea (actually a thousand years old) that we are somehow all the same and should all be in some sort of union. And it always ends up in war.