Originally Posted by
Wilfire
The original EU organization (ECSC) had a very simple goal: prevent endless continental wars between Germany and Frace. Since 1951, there hasn't been a single armed conflict between those countries.
By contrast, neither the USA nor Russia has made any attempt to resolve their endless proxy wars on an institutional level. It takes very mature politicians to realize that there's a fundamental factor that causes wars over and over again and take decisive steps to eliminate that factor once and for all.
Unfortunately, Trump, Biden and Putin are all assclowns who will continue to waste precious taxpayer money on endless armament races and proxy wars.