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The EU and latter day Soviet Union share more similarities than people would like to admit.

The EU tries to prevent countries breaking away from its dictats using economic war as a threat (i.e. you obey us or we stop trading with you), rather than "hot war" - at present. But elements of the EU are pushing to get its own army, and the EU already has a system in place to effectively eliminate or take over governments that are deemed to not be reflecting EU "values":

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/24/eu-vows-use-new-p...

Fast forward 20 years and you get zealots like Juncker who already want to "punish" countries where voters disagree with him, put them in charge of their own army with a puppet parliament, and presto - the USSR is back.

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But these attributes are true of all states. There is no unclaimed land on earth that new states can claim, so state formation necessarily destroys existing states. It's impossible to form new states without force, just as much today as it was in 1776. This doesn't make new states bad.