Such a formation of countries would probably regress into a type of neo-imperialism, the Austro-Hungarian empire or the United Kingdom would be a good example, some countries would get the arse end of the deal. History always repeats, even with advancing technology, sometimes its the actual catalyst for conflict.
Many countries still dislike or have personal grudges about the Germans and the other axis allies, even if they trade together, like Russia, Poland or Israel. Australia, China, Korea for example with the japs.
But, we only have one perspective, depends on where you gather your information from at the end of the day, depends on if you lost half your family in that war .
Lest we forget.
Many countries still dislike or have personal grudges about the Germans and the other axis allies, even if they trade together, like Russia, Poland or Israel. Australia, China, Korea for example with the japs.
But, we only have one perspective, depends on where you gather your information from at the end of the day, depends on if you lost half your family in that war .
Lest we forget.
most of africa and the middle east and se asia were carved up fake countries.
the same applies to latin america, but the native population was effectively exterminated there so their own nationality developed over 300 years of colonization
cubeless
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larger countries are considered for the same reason that larger companies are considered: someone wants to be in charge of more than they are currently... and the result tends to be the same: they become ungovernable...
but this doesn't stop the power-hungry from coming up with new excuses to try again...
but this doesn't stop the power-hungry from coming up with new excuses to try again...
Confirmed.
Well that explains it then. A lot of Poles hate the Germans but the rest of us really don't. I guess we english hate them in a sort of we-kicked-your-ass-ha-ha way, but we hate the French much more, and they never did anything to us. Not for a few centuries anyway.
I heard a Polish representitive suggest Poland should have more votes in the EU to reflet the fact their population would have been nearly double what it is now if it wasn't for the Germans...
There's actually a certain logic to such an idea - it's just outweighed by the arguments against it.
In a way, the creation of Israel was the same sort of 'compensate for the harm of the Germans' policy for the Jewish people.
But the impractiicalities of a perpetual 'artifical population count' for Poland are clearly not very workable - while in contrast, Israel clearly has no real operational challenges.
Ok I think you covered just about everyone... wait...
What about Africa, Australia, Iceland, or Greenland?
Would South America and North America combine? That would be slightly unfair because it would be much larger than the other "countries".
We all can't even get along here in AT P&N, and we all speak English (well, mostly)!
Anyway, the bigger the government, the less say any single person has in how it rules, and therefore the less accountability the government has to the people. Less accountability -> greater inefficiency -> even bigger government.
Anyway, the bigger the government, the less say any single person has in how it rules, and therefore the less accountability the government has to the people. Less accountability -> greater inefficiency -> even bigger government.
As long as resources are not unlimited and there is religion your idea will not work.
If all of North and South America were one country how would you split up the resources? People from Mexico down have a much higher percentage of being dirt poor? Should the wealthier part of the new nation continents shoulder the burden of the lazy and poor even more than they do now? Should the ones that provide the most for the nation, get less so that the lazy and poor can have more food on their table? It sounds "fair" but when you take food out of the mouths of people, regardless of it being "fair" or not, you'er going to create unrest. And that unrest will lead to action and that action will ultimately lead to the destruction of such a large country.
If all of North and South America were one country how would you split up the resources? People from Mexico down have a much higher percentage of being dirt poor? Should the wealthier part of the new nation continents shoulder the burden of the lazy and poor even more than they do now? Should the ones that provide the most for the nation, get less so that the lazy and poor can have more food on their table? It sounds "fair" but when you take food out of the mouths of people, regardless of it being "fair" or not, you'er going to create unrest. And that unrest will lead to action and that action will ultimately lead to the destruction of such a large country.
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We will never get along, it is more to do with social groups and such then countries. It would solve nothing, probably create more problems because small groups who used to be their own nation would then feel un-represented. Now of course there is the whole argument of how this is utterly impractical to do, who sets the standards for this, who makes up these new countries cuts the borders?
It will slowly happen in some sense greater amounts of global commerce, and large coorperation spanning the world but not really in the same sense.
It will slowly happen in some sense greater amounts of global commerce, and large coorperation spanning the world but not really in the same sense.
There's lingering hostility in the United States former confedercacy against the North, but don't look for war. Both war and peace are driven by economic interests of the wealthy.
WWII was caused by centrally economic issues and the regional consolidations in this thread are as well - see NAFTA and then CAFTA for a start.
Take a look at how the soviet union worked and you will see that the net benefit (Joke) is corruption on a large scale and multiple levels of bureaucracy, that keep anything useful from being accomplished.
How I view the EU is as a large organization to promote European Control and to exclude any outside entrance into European Markets from north and south american continents. They fear freedom and anything resembling an open market when that market is from the United States.
How I view the EU is as a large organization to promote European Control and to exclude any outside entrance into European Markets from north and south american continents. They fear freedom and anything resembling an open market when that market is from the United States.
No, the larger the population and the more expansive the area to be governed, the harder it is to maintain control and cohesion among disparate sub-groups and cultures within the macro population. It might be a good idea in principle but it isn't really very pragmatic. World history isn't exactly my forté but didn't the Roman empire at one time span a large part of the known world during it's time? For one reason or another I don't think that ended up working out too well for them after some time.
Until the very existence of our planet or our species as a whole is directly, evidently, and immediately threatened in a way where the evidence is incontrovertible (invasion by hostile space-aliens like in a sci-fi movie for example) different human cultures will continue to focus more on their uniqueness and individuality rather than band together and focus on what ties us all together and unites us all as a species. What's worse is that everybody knows this. . .we all realize this. Yet we stubbornly hold steadfast to our ways.
Until the very existence of our planet or our species as a whole is directly, evidently, and immediately threatened in a way where the evidence is incontrovertible (invasion by hostile space-aliens like in a sci-fi movie for example) different human cultures will continue to focus more on their uniqueness and individuality rather than band together and focus on what ties us all together and unites us all as a species. What's worse is that everybody knows this. . .we all realize this. Yet we stubbornly hold steadfast to our ways.
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