Comments by "Winston Smith" (@winstonsmith935) on "Russia Tears Into Zelensky’s Backers at UNGA, Revealing Their Failed Ukraine Gamble | TN World" video.

  1. Trouble afoot in the EU family. Nigel Farage warmed of this over 3 years ago, Margaret Thatcher warned 30 years ago about the EU. Now the family squabbles are here.
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  2. This is what Margaret Thatcher warned ABOUT BOUT 30 years ago. If there is any argument which the Prime Minister hit home continuously, it was her stark opposition to a centralized federal state, ruled by the Brussels bureaucracy. The idea of a United States of Europe is a utopia that “never comes, because we know we should not like it if it did.” Instead of politicians trying to create a single European identity, the mantra should be unity in diversity: “Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.” In Margaret Thatcher’s opinion, the EU should stay a supranational organization which is based on voluntary cooperation between sovereign states, rather than one federal state. She perhaps felt alone with this opinion when she presented it thirty years ago. But today, with another debate on the future of the European Union – and even farther down the road of the “ever closer union,” we should keep in mind what Lady Thatcher said, and “to raise the flag of national sovereignty, free trade and free enterprise – and fight.” Indeed, as the Prime Minister wrote in her memoirs, “if there was ever an idea whose time had come and gone it was surely that of the artificial mega-state.”
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