Re: Europe or Euro-Siberia?
Just as relevant for various reasons.
For one, the more the areas of dominance shrink, the less buffer areas to separate us all from Asians or others that we have. If you believe that Muslims would have stopped at the Pyrenees had they not met a fight of centuries in Spain, you are much wrong.
Another reason perhaps more important is that we should base such thoughts not on self-interest, but on true and disinterested cooperation.
I understand that a true Irish nationalist may feel reluctant to the idea of close cooperation and mutual care in Europe. After all, how many European nationalists care enough for Ireland? And I don't mean for the problem of immigration in Ireland, but for the Irish nation being broken and divided by the British.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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