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@stevep @Buba Another point that I'm thinking of here is that it's really hard to envision an EU-style union occurring in Europe before WWI because Europe was split into two rival camps/blocs back then, albeit with some less committed members. In such a scenario, it's hard to envision an...

FWIW, I think that countries with cognitively elitist immigration policies such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have less tensions over immigration than the rest of the world has.

A) The wages and living standards being cut is primarily a short-term concern. In the long-term, immigrants and their descendants are also capable of creating jobs, including for Germans. Also, what happened to believing in the magical power of assimilation, like in the US? The US had the...

Frankly, I suspect that Germany's main value for its colonized peoples is going to be as a destination source for immigrants, assuming of course that it would actually be open to this. Polish, Ukrainian, et cetera workers might be able to significantly improve their lives by immigrating to...

The German economy is likely to be much more dynamic than the Soviet economy was due to a lack of central planning, though. But Yeah, the crucial question would be whether Germany will genuinely aim to improve the lives of Eastern Europeans or if it will simply aim to exploit them. Another...

@stevep What do you think about this? Personally, I consider the EU to have been one of the West's great success stories over the last several decades and thus I'm wondering if there is any realistic way to still create it with much less suffering, such as by avoiding one or both World Wars. I...

What about it evolving into an EU analog over the next several decades? Too much bad blood?

Just how plausible would it have been for a European Union-style confederation to eventually be created if the Central Powers would have won World War I? Would it have been very likely? Or would the creation of a Mitteleuropa confederation have been much more likely, possibly with one or more...