[krona]

building the very idea of a community of nations in europe

Like the League of Nations? And every other (defunt) supranational institution all the way back to Napoleon?

[landryraccoon]

Your point is that since it wasn’t able to work before, it’ll never work? I mean, Leonardo Da Vinci wasn’t able to build a working flying machine, does that mean the Wrights were dumb to think they would succeed where Leonardo failed?

[krona]

If the wrights had taken Da Vinci's design and rebuilt the invention without understanding why it failed the first time, absolutely.