Executive vice-president of the EU pens a sad letter to the UK, begging them to come back. Violins being playing. Salt mining at its finest.

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[–]DffrntDrmmr 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

In the best of times these differences make us the most creative, productive, peaceful and prosperous of families. In the worst of times our differences are manipulated to instil fear, to propagate superiority, to set one family member against the other. Things then quickly get out of hand. We all are also very, very good at that. That is our legacy. That too is who we are. And as a family we have a duty to promote the best of times and keep the worst of times at bay. So far, for all its faults, the EU has been the most successful tool to achieve that goal.

Actually, after a long history of strife in Europe (including two world wars started in the first half of last century), the United States allied with and assumed the mantle of international leadership of Europe (including NATO), resulting in over a half century of harmony. Nothing has changed in that regard since the founding of the EU.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's a complete liar. He's taking credit for American accomplishments. The EU didn't keep the peace for 75 years. The EU didn't rebuild Europe. The EU didn't keep the oceans open for those vaunted exports. The EU didn't provide free security so that Europeans could build lavish welfare states with the vast amounts of money saved on defense.

But the EU has to lie and say these things, because it's built on a foundation of sand. It doesn't value the interests of its own people because it was built to ignore the people and let the smarty-smarts rule.

Europeans have woken up to this and are voting for themselves and the EU is absolutely livid about it. Thus it lashes out and shouts at the people for being stupid and putting their own interests above EU interests. They have only themselves to blame.