[jmnicolas]

I didn't mention communism nor socialism (except in the name USSR).

I compare the EU to the USSR because they're both top down bureaucracies that think they knows best and can erase nations under their rule. It works for a time but when it inevitably collapses, wars are almost a certainty.

You hear about the Euro and the UE collapse since 2007 because the process started back then.

Eastern countries don't share the liberal ideology of the west. They're in as long as money flows. Once it stops why would they let the west tell them how to think?

Then there are the southern countries (PIGS + France) that are bankrupt, the north don't want to pay. What do you think will happen when Covid can't be used to throw money at the problem any more?

Lastly look at the average European banks leverage. They won't survive another 2008.

FWIW I have skin in the game: I'm French, living in France.