[inglor_cz]

"the European cause."

Plenty of Europeans, including me, disagree with you on the very existence of a "European cause".

"There's a reason the US became a single country and not loosely associated states."

I don't want federal EU, many others don't either. At least hold a referendum before running your fix. I suspect that most member countries would vote against being reduced to provinces of a centralized state.

[saubeidl]

You will be reduced to provinces of a centralized state anyways, seeing the CZ in your name. The only question is if the capital would be Brussels or Moscow.

We don't have the luxury of waiting for endless referenda. The enemy's at the gates.

[inglor_cz]

This sort of false dichotimes was peddled to us in the 1940s already. Choose Berlin or Moscow.

Let us say that I don't consider your prophecy very accurate. Czechia, in some form, exists for about 1100 years. The EU probably won't match that record.

As for the Russians, molon labe, and I wouldn't count on Brussels to help us efficiently in such situations, if they cannot even enforce law in local Arab neighbourhoods.

Even today, the southwestern part of Europe is mostly obsessed with Gaza and I have to remind my Spanish and Italian colleagues that there is an actual shooting war on this very continent.

[saubeidl]

Czechia was an Austrian province until very recently.

[inglor_cz]

Czechia was a constituent kingdom in a sui generis hodgepodge monarchy consisting of many kingdoms. Not the same as province.

That said, we gained sovereignty and precisely because we still remember being treated as subordinates, we don't want to lose it again to another hodgepodge.

There won't be a federal EU, live with it. The optimal time for federalists has passed, and people are more distrustful of centralization than ever before. Not just because of naked power grab attempts like Chat Control, which would perfectly fit into China, but not to a continent where multiple constitutions forbid this sort of mass surveillance.

You may find it funny, but people actually fought and died for freedom of their nations, and their legacy won't be disposed of just because the Brussels bosses would find it practical in their quest for more power and money.