It’s the inherent contradictions of Nationalism, which is the result of unwillingness to socialize.
Just within the EU itself there’s 24 individual, capitalist, nations. That is just never going to work. Think of all the contradictions that arise from 24 individual capitalist nations each competing with each other. Lithuania is having a panic attack just thinking about how to force people to use their language, because it’s materially completely worthless.
What can they do? Nothing. Nobody cares about them and why would they? That’s something dirty socialists do and Lithuania, including a lot of Lithuanians thinks that’s fascism. They can’t deny entry to migrant, they can’t force their population to stay at home, the cat is already out of the bag you can’t put the cat back in, they will never have the military might to defend their sovereignty and even if they forge temporary alliances with their neighbors against a common enemy, you can bet 100% that after the war whoever has the biggest military/economy left will take control of the territory the moment that is more profitable than peace, there’s nothing they can do and that applies to most nations in Europe to a greater and lesser extent.
I really don’t like to be pessimistic, but that’s just the reality.
It’s the inherent contradictions of Nationalism, which is the result of unwillingness to socialize.
Just within the EU itself there’s 24 individual, capitalist, nations. That is just never going to work. Think of all the contradictions that arise from 24 individual capitalist nations each competing with each other. Lithuania is having a panic attack just thinking about how to force people to use their language, because it’s materially completely worthless.
What can they do? Nothing. Nobody cares about them and why would they? That’s something dirty socialists do and Lithuania, including a lot of Lithuanians thinks that’s fascism. They can’t deny entry to migrant, they can’t force their population to stay at home, the cat is already out of the bag you can’t put the cat back in, they will never have the military might to defend their sovereignty and even if they forge temporary alliances with their neighbors against a common enemy, you can bet 100% that after the war whoever has the biggest military/economy left will take control of the territory the moment that is more profitable than peace, there’s nothing they can do and that applies to most nations in Europe to a greater and lesser extent.
I really don’t like to be pessimistic, but that’s just the reality.
In ireland liberals here are obsessed with doing nothing to keep the language alive (so are the so called “Irish nationalist socialists” tbh)
But it’s over
Nothing can be done
They don’t realize we live in an international world with large scale immigration being common
You cannot force people to stay in one tiny fucking country and speak a tiny minority language,
The minority languages are doomed to die by the world becoming ever more interconnected.
The thing is, materially, these small European states shouldn’t exist, the world is very clearly moving towards larger more organized states.
The only way the EU could work in the future is if it federalized under socialism but it can’t because nationalism is too rampant
They could have preserved their cultures and the cultures of others, let them evolve as time goes, but they are unable to accept peaceful coexistence.