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Originally Posted by Monolith
My opinion about EU is somewhere between dissolution and restructuring. I believe that EU should be a strong military alliance, in order to protect European values and peoples from foreign threats. Also, certain free trade agreements between European countries could be used to protect European products from foreign competition.
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True that the state of the military throughout E.U. countries is... ridiculous? pathetic? pitiful? ..whatever, but relying on alien federated troops (read America) is the same mistake committed by the late Roman Empire which precipitated its fall (never mind more exotic interpretations). Which, by the way, I've read somewhere that it was a reason why a short-lived [true] Western split occurred (the so-called Gallic Empire, made up by Gallia, Hispania and Britannia) against what was perceived erroneous policy of the Eastern part of the Empire (From Rome, eastwards to Byzantium).
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How do you know he's from Skoplje?
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Do you mean that he could be a Greek of "Slavic meta-ethnicity"?.
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