Shiva_TD

I think we should go the other way. No nation over 2 million in population. Every country would be so weak militarily that they couldn't attack their neighbors or to inflict tyranny on the People.

Intranetusa

The EU is basically a useless confederation of spineless quasi-socialist European nations with no immigration or assimilation policy...so they're having massive problems with illegal immigrants, flailing economy, high unemployment, spreading of fundamentalist Islam, and riots from poor immigrants.

sorry for the rant... :/

JKD

Britain should be part of the EU, because, number 1, we have a lot of friends here now, we our economy is growing through the EU, the EU fund things all across the country for us, It's generally quite friendly, we can travel and live wherever we want in the EU just through an EU license, And European countries don't tend to go to war as much as other countries on their own in modern days. the only reason say France maybe in Afghanistan is because of NATO, not just themselves. If we were with USA, who go to war all the time, Britain could not simply afford it. Generally nowadays, the EU is a much more peaceful Union than say USA.

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Rousseau1762

The only way I see possible for the world to unite is through a common enemy. Other sentient species that threaten humans is the most likely cause, probably the one that would have the most effect, in uniting the world.

defenderofthesmall

If there was a threat from outer space, it would force the whole world together because we would have to, fear for life is the only way to bind the world together

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JKD

Yeah, that's what i was thinking.

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The Swiss 557

I think it is a bad idea for us to unite unless we were faced with an alien invasion, anyways a one world government would be bad because it is hard to maintain a massive unified nation, people would be discontented about the fact that they wouldn't have their own ethnic nation, besides a one world government is just the kind of idea the freemasons would want to have.

JKD

lol, these conspiracy theories really got to you then.

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The Way

A single world government is incredibly unrealistic in the forseeable future. Not only is it essentially a political impossibility, but from a practical viewpoint I don't see how it could be governed. Can you even imagine trying to create and implement a basic tax system at a global level? Welfare, infrastructure, defense?

I, for one, see a more multi-tiered system of governance arising. I believe that power will increasingly be diffused between multiple levels of government. International governance ran by the UN, ICJ and major international organizations (WTO, World Bank, IMF). Regional governance represented by organizations like ASEAU, the AU, the EU, the SCO, the CIS, etc. Traditional national governance. These three levels will become increasingly integrated, but I tend to believe that states will remain the dominant political actor.

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demosfidelis

That would be at best a temporary alliance. after we had driven off the enemy, the old feuds would ignite again and the world would divide again.