montelatici
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I have forgotten more than you will ever learn about geopolitics, jackass. It is easy to discern that you are an ignorant little punk from reading the nonsense you write.
Talk is cheap and yours isn't worth a solitary dime. ANYONE that believes that the E.U is a good idea for any country that values it's sovereignty is a blithering, card carrying idiot.....and you definitely display yours with pride.
Any European Union state that understands how 450 million people (without Britain) can negotiate with China, the U.S., Russia and India, compared to what a country of even 60 million, knows that the E.U. is not only a good idea, but necessary for survival. That's while the remaining 27 will integrate further without the British fifth column busting balls.
Support your premise that we, the US, refuse to negotiate in good faith with medium sized countries, such as the UK.
The U.S. doesn't negotiate in good faith with anyone, only U.S. interests are considered. What is more of interest to the U.S., a market of 450 million or a market of 60 million people?
But even if it were true, the U.S. receives about 50 billion in UK exports, the EU about 200 billion. Do you think suddenly the UK is going to find a 200 billion market for financial services and automobiles in the U.S.?
Why do you think countries like Switzerland aggregate themselves with the EU in trade deals with large economies?
1. Negotiating in good faith does not mean that you are not aggressively pursuing your interests.
2. The UK does not need to fill the entire EU niche. It merely needs to fill it's own niche. I think that the US, if the UK is more reasonable than the EU, will do just fine in it's trade with the US.
3. Switerland aggregates it's self into the EU because the EU is a trade bloc designed to protect it's internal markets against outsiders.
1. Bullshit. Negotiating in good faith means that if you have a market 4-5 times the market of the country you are negotiating with, you have the leverage.
2. Of course the UK has to fill what it was selling to within the EU. If it doesn't make and export cars to the EU it loses the business and it loses GDP. The only reason Japanese cars are made in the UK is because they could be shipped to another EU state as if it were a shipment within the same country. That will end.
3. Yes, the EU defends its interests and it can because it is a union of nearly half a billion people.
Are you really as naive as you appear to be?