EU wins Nobel peace Prize. No... seriously, they did!

[Mr Khan]

kowenicki said:

Mr Khan said:

kowenicki said:

Mr Khan said:

 

Exactly. Long-run, the European Union is going to be a powerful force for good in the world.

If we need a historical example, look at America; dysfunctional as fuck up until after the Civil War. But that didn't stop it from being a good idea before the civil war, which proved itself more thoroughly afterwards.

You can't know this, you don't know this. If you think the EU is remotely comparable to the US you are in some kind of fantasy land. Fat too disparate. That not being a spoil sport, it's just a fact. 

Too disparate, eh?

Not disparate enough to match America, i say. Belarus isn't even in the EU.

What's this supposed to portray?

The names over the states portray a country with GDP roughly equal to that of the state, so, for instance, New Jersey's gross domestic product is about as much as the whole of Russia, or New Mexico on the level with Hungary.

It sinks the "GDPs are too disparate" argument right quick, when you've got France, Sweden, and Austria living in harmony with Uzbekistan, Ecuador, and Algeria.