"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 believe in building stronger alliances within EU, but making it a country is taking things way too far.
- 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.
- 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.
- Every country is free to make it's own agreements internationally. But it doesn't make a lot of sense. Bargaining as the EU instead of an individual country gives you so much more bargaining power.

Taiwan and China are also listed as separate countries.
- Taiwan and China are two separate countries.
  
  China: No!
  Taiwan: No!
  Both of them consider other as a part of itself.
- 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

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

I wouldn't mind making it real though

Wasn't Russia absent from that list?

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

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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.