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And by the way? World government is what shouldn’t exist. Nations are the real alternative to that, and it takes more than being a difference in paperwork to fuel it enough for that. Things like communes aren’t a real alternative.
I don’t know if you saw my opinions on what to do about border disputes. But I also said I wanted that principle used to create a number of interlocking EU-like-but-less-bad-monetary-policy superstates. No world government, no real need for nationalism.
I don’t think that has the necessary power level to prevent world government.
There are two outcomes if you let a situation like the EU go on for too long. Either Europe will itself become a nation, as cultural borders dissolve under the force of internal migration, and power will centralize; or, they’ll forget who they are and, lacking the will to resist, there will slowly be the formation of a world government under people who ask why there should be such antiquated things as borders around the EUs.
Right now, Europe seems to be shearing itself apart over the friction of not being a true Federation.