Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
I think you'll find that "the Russians" have already done a big grouping and had a big war. 20 million of them died. Does that satisfy me? No, why should it? It did help free Europe of one tyranny though, but only to replace half of it with another. The trick now is to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself, which it has a nasty habit of doing.
History is that the entities we can manage get bigger so there probably will be a grouping of states and it's just a matter of whether it's created by war or by agreement - makes me think eventually we have to learn to do it peacefully as we have learned not to keep our latrines near our wells.