Ukraine: US condemns Odessa violence as dozens die

[JackRiddler]

84. It only expanded to 28 nations recently.

The organization now known as the EU is about 55 years old. It started as 6 countries and probably had 12 members for the longest period of its existence. Your terms in its praise are so general and weirdly specific at the same time that there's no way to respond.

You want to give credit to the EU as cause for qualities of recent European history (such as peace) that may actually have contributed to its growth (i.e., reversing the causality). Reminds me of people who want to credit all good things that happened in the last 200 years (like "democracy&quot to "capitalism." Your statement shows extremely simplistic understanding and little evidence you know much about the history in depth.

Nothing wrong with being ignorant, of course, it can be cured - if you weren't at the same time being such a blowhard in support of an institution that has become objectively repressive and regressive. The present-day European Union is a neoliberal attack machine, working on behalf of the 1% to cause the very problems it pretends to address. Its role in generating the Ukraine situation has been despicable.

Finally, it doesn't matter whether there is a superior "28-nation bloc." There is no obligation to support any given bloc of nations. What matters is that the EU is currently in the wrong on most of the world's essential political questions. "Better than the US" isn't very impressive - "Better than Russia" also isn't. It matters who's doing good, and who's doing evil. The EU is, on balance, not doing good. One need not support a different bloc of nations to acknowledge that.