"Country"

Time to make it true?
- I consider myself hardcore pro European (Euro-patriotic if you will) but I think one of the reasons we're still standing is how decentralised this arrangement is. Poland seemed lost to propaganda but managed to bounce back. So could Slovakia or even Hungary. Infiltrating the EU is so much harder compared to a single, large nation because of that. It's also a pretty effective tool against imperialism in our own ranks. If you take a look at what other countries are doing it seems to me in comparison we've got a good thing going.
  
  I agree, but there's definitely some more integration that can be done. An initially opt-in military organisation would be great because it doesn't really make sense for individual EU countries to do military alone. We should never fight with other countries in the block (and a military organisation would make that impossible), and it doesn't make sense that the EU wouldn't protect other member states.
  I guess we might get that for free when we inherit NATO...
  
  I'm European and happy to be but I also look at European history and don't want us to go too hard.
  
  Don’t take it for granted. Im British, I did. Many others did probably too.
  
  Yes but what use is a flabby confederation that can't manage to speak with a united voice and does little more than distribute cash to the farmers of its increasingly autocratic members?
  I'm caricaturing the situation but it's not that far off.
- I love being part of the EU, but fuck no we shouldn't band together as a single country.
- Let's make the USE a thing!
  
  No. Let's get the EU to slowly move into a true federal model, improving on the good parts that already exist and creating new schemes of mutual approach as we advance. We do not need to become the USE.
- I prefer federated things
  
  Germany is a federation as well as Switzerland and Canada, the US and India.
  How centralised and integrated a federation is will always be an ongoing discussion, but one could argue that the EU is a federal state in all but name.
  
  I was thinking of it in the federation sense, but it didn't fit the "topic" as a poor joke.
- I believe in building stronger alliances within EU, but making it a country is taking things way too far.
- I'd fight you.
- Eurasia here we come!

For trade purposes, the EU acts as a single country. You can't make trade agreements with a single EU country.
- You say that, but this is a timeline where California is negotiating its own trade agreements to get around the bullshit in OP's picture. Anything could happen.
  
  California can do that?
  Edit from le chat mistral:
  So he doesn't give them anything, he's just asking to keep trading with them
  "Yes, that's correct. Governor Newsom's strategy primarily involves advocating for California's economic interests and encouraging international trading partners to maintain or even expand their trade relationships with California, despite the federal tariffs. He is essentially asking these partners to consider exempting California-made products from retaliatory tariffs, emphasizing the state's economic stability and reliability as a trading partner. This approach does not involve offering specific concessions or incentives but rather leverages California's significant market power and economic influence to negotiate more favorable trade conditions."
  California isn't doing anything, just asking politely to be exempt from our tariffs on USA.
  
  That's a move to force the judiciary to say tariffs are solely their perview outside of declared conventional war.
- Still not one country. It's Just wrong (the description..)
  
  From all the things to be point out about this idiot, this one must be the most pedantic.

Taiwan and China are also listed as separate countries.
- Taiwan and China are two separate countries.
- New headline. Trump tariffs confirm Taiwan sovereignty.
- USA accidentally makes the split official policy.
  (Maybe it has been for a time. I recall it used to be tacitly understood but unsaid.)
- At this point I think they're just trolling everyone

How TF his face darker than his lips?
- Poorly applied makeup.
  
  I know, it was kinda rhetorical, it's just funny to me that someone was like " yup, you look great boss" and then sent him out.
  
  Unhealthy blood flow too
- He looks likes one of those offensive old cartoon characters made to make fun of black people
  
  yeah kinda tbh

I wouldn't mind making it real though

Him and everyone surrounding him is a fucking idiot.
- did you see how they text in Signal with the emojis and everything? my 12 yo niece finds it cringe

Wasn't Russia absent from that list?
- Yes. But penguin island was not.
  Now watch Trump lift sanctions against Russia and send the most noteworthy opposition to that to the El Salvadoran concenration camp.
  The only silver lining in how big the last protest was. If momentum continues in the right direction we may either win, or put him under enough pressure to limit his options, and ensure an election again in 2028.
  
  A third presidential term?
  
  Those darn penguins and their snarky little salesmen

"Resident of the Unit" has a good ring to it here.

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I just realised Switzerland isn't party of EU. I keep confusing Sweden with Switzerland for some reason, they both start with Sw so maybe that.
- This reminds me of a video where Europeans were shown a map of the USA and had to point at the state the interviewer asked and vice versa. So the interviewer asks someone in the US and he put Sweden and Switzerland next to each other in Scandinavia and than later this interviewer asks about Slovakia (I think) and the guy goes "well, here are all the s-countries so it must be there somewhere" I laughed my ass of for real.

Afaik, it does work as a country, even if it's not formally one.

I mean, we've mostly heard about the uninhabited and rarely visited Australian island that got an entry, right? Apparently the penguins are cutting unfair trade deals.

The EU should become a country and it was over 95 years late.