EU Question

Why has the EU's relevance and power projection decreased as it has expanded? Genuinely interested. I feel as though it should be increasing if anything.

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The more it expands the more gibs it provides to eastern europe
ex warsaw pact are net drains

>senile bureaucrats attempt to emulate the USA without figuring out what made it great in the first place
>become the laughing stock of the world instead
Did not see it coming at all

The EU is not a laughing stock, and I don't think they were trying to copy America.

who cares about politics

Perhaps this attitude is why. Though I agree generally.

It's just the rest of the world (bar Japan) grew way more than they did, which pushed down their share and relevance, and that's not really surprising since generally speaking developing/emerging economies grow more than already well developed economies do. The only exception would the US, which is the biggest beneficiary of globalization.

aging population just like japan

germany

elaborate

Italians, Spanish and Greeks have this mental cope that Germany is terrified of their immense industrial potential so it forces EU policies that nerf their exports. The truth is that all 3 countries are plagued by debt issues, inefficient bureaucracy, youth unemployment and corruption which have nothing to do with Germany

Europe hasn't been at the forefront of the last big technological breakthroughs and doesn't appear competitive in future ones either. Look at the rise of PCs, the internet, smartphones and digitalisation. Nearly all the big players are American or Asian. They have missed out on a slice of huge new markets worth trillions. Now look at the next big breakthrough fields such as AI, EVs and the commercialisation of space. The big players are again American or Asian. Europe still excels in the technologies that broke through in the early 20th and throughout the 19th century, but has really missed the boat on recent innovations.

The world wide web was invented at CERN though

Maybe they weren't great at turning that invention into companies and wealth

So you basically say we are the brains and you're the leech

The problem is that eurocrats still think that the cold war is a thing so they defer to US foreign policy. Just look at how they deal with China. Under Trump they were pretty conciliatory towards them but once the globohomo Biden took the reigns the EU fell back into lockstep.

>problem is that eurocrats still think that the cold war is a thing
Literally the opposite, its the angloidsphere that think like that.

Again, the China question proves you wrong. The EU has nothing to gain from antagonizing China (and Russia) yet it does so because its n loving bureaucrats still think they have to kowtow to the US.

It's entirely because of your nefast influence.

China's rise means that the share of global wealth is dropping for EU. But that is unironically a good thing. China's markets mean that EU can do business with them and import cheap consumer shit from China meaning that European consumers benefit. Global wealth isn't a zero-sum game, just because the share of pie is getting smaller doesn't mean that Europeans are suffering. On the opposite, the share of pie is getting smaller but the portion size is in fact getting larger. Rising tide floats all boats and all that. Still US is doing better than EU, no argument there. But what that graph is showing is the rise of China and other thirdies.

Except that the EU seems intent on fighting the US's battles against both China and Russia rather than working with the two cunts to create wealth.

And you're proud of your cancerous behaviour ?