In the world situation in the mid-7th century, Ou Yu's situation is the most awkward

As early as the end of the 1990s, EU member states surpassed the United States in terms of population and economic output, becoming the world's largest economy.

Because during the global financial crisis that broke out in Likou year and the subsequent Great Depression, the EU adopted a relatively rational trade policy. Not only did it not regard the Republic as the main trade enemy, but it also made full use of the benefits of the Republic's trade war with the United States, making economic losses far lower than that of the United States. Therefore, by the early days of the Blade, the EU's per capita national output value had reached the old 10,000 euros and about the old US dollar, surpassing the United States, becoming the world's richest major economy. The per capita national output value of the Republic was 200,000 yuan, equivalent to 70,000 US dollars.

By the end of the year, the per capita national output value of the EU exceeded 10,000 euros and about 10,000 US dollars, or 40,000 RMB, plus 700 million people, the EU is still the second largest economy in the world and the richest major economy. During the same period, the per capita national output value of the Republic was 80,000 RMB, and the total economic output was 10,000 RMB, the total economic output of the United States was 10,000 US dollars, and the total economic output was 1 trillion US dollars.

Although these huge data are mainly attributed to hyperinflation during the Great Depression and the rapid development after the Great Depression, after deducting factors such as inflation, the thugs are still ahead of the United States, making them the second largest economy after the Republic.

It can be seen from this that the EU is definitely a "giant" economically.

It can be said that if the economic strength is comprehensively measured, that is, the gross national output value, per capita output value, and the real income of the people, the EU and even the world's largest economy are lower than that of the European Union. Because the Republic has to invest a lot of resources in infrastructure construction, the real income of the people is approximately half of the per capita output value, far lower than that of the EU and the United States.

It is such an economic giant who is an "sister" in other aspects.

In terms of political influence, the EU is even better than Russia.

At the beginning of the century, after the color revolution of Ukraine, it has been working hard to join the NATO group, hoping to get rid of Russia's influence. Because nearly half of Ukraine's citizens have close contacts with Russia, the Russian authorities absolutely cannot tolerate Ukraine becoming a NATO member state. In order to prevent Ukraine from going to the Western world led by the United States, in the next year, Russia brazenly sent troops to plan independence from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and taught Georgia, which also hoped to join NATO and gradually drifted away from Russia, to kill chickens and be monkeys, making Ukraine much more honest. In order to "subdue" Ukraine, Russia has also adopted many other measures, such as raising natural gas prices, pushing up Ukraine's prices, destroying Ukraine's economy, and losing support to the pro-Western government. It is precisely this way, two years later, pro-Russian political parties won the general election, and Ukraine's joining the NATO group ended.

The problem is that a country with a population of more than 10,000 will never be at the mercy of other countries.

In terms of land area, population, and from Tsai resources, Ukraine is a big country in Europe and an influential power. In other words, Ukraine will not easily surrender to any country. More importantly, the Great Depression in the late old era completely disrupted Russia's expansion pace and made Ukraine become "independence and independence." Because the NATO group led by the United States is declining and Russia has always regarded NATO as its number one enemy, the Ukrainian authorities chose to join the EU.

In the early years of the century-old power, Ukraine became the "observation country" of the EU.

In order to join the EU, the Ukrainian authorities have made many efforts, such as promising to never cut off natural gas transit to the EU at any time, and to use EU standards for national defense and security. To this end, the Ukrainian army began to receive weapons and equipment provided by major EU member states such as France, Germany, Italy, etc., and gradually eliminated Russian-made weapons and weapons and equipment aided by the United States in the past. The address of this site has been changed to: Just a mouthful of milk...8. Please log in to the valve!

For the EU, Ukraine's entry into the alliance is definitely a good thing.

From the EU's standpoint, even if Ukraine is poor and backward, its 10,000 square kilometers of land and 40,000 people are a big temptation. You should know that the EU has a great disadvantage in terms of its comprehensive strength, population size and land area. Some people even believe that this is the fundamental reason why the EU is difficult to become a superpower.

Although in the middle of the priest, the impact of land area on national strength was extremely small, the population size was definitely the key factor, or even the most important factor in measuring a country's comprehensive strength, because there was no big pound. Countries with sparse population could become world powers. It can be said that Russia's long-term sluggishness was because of its too sparse population. With Russia's land area and natural resources, a more reasonable population size was the priest, rather than a thug.

For the EU, the biggest problem is not its sparse population. After all, the EU's population is second only to India and the Republic, and is even more than the United States. The key is that the aging problem of the EU, especially the aging problem of several major economically developed member states such as France, Germany and Italy, is very serious.

Influenced by the two parts of national thought, traditional culture, values, etc. Ou Wei cannot accept immigration as the United States to solve the problem of weathering. As early as the beginning of the century, the EU introduced the "blue card" system, compared with the "green card" of the United States, and gradually relaxed the immigration system, hoping to absorb more talents to solve the aging problem. The problem is that the EU does not have the favorable conditions for absorbing immigration, so there is no way to use immigration to solve social problems.

It can be said that in terms of attracting immigration, the EU's situation is very similar to that of the Republic, that is, policies can only play an auxiliary role. Due to factors such as cultural and ideological reasons, the EU and the Republic are not the preferred countries for immigration.

Compared with the EU, Ukraine is a very "young" country. The new address of this site has been changed to: Just a moment...8. Please log in to the Valve!

More importantly, in the early days of power, controlled fusion nuclear power plants had not been officially promoted, and coal, oil and natural gas were still the main energy sources. Eighty percent of the natural gas needed by the EU came from Russia, and 80 percent were transported by pipelines through Ukraine. In other words, the natural gas needed by the EU needs was about instantly needed to transit from Ukraine. From the perspective of energy security, the EU should also absorb Ukraine.

In short, Ukraine is both an important and a necessary potential member state for the EU.

The problem is that in front of Russia, the EU's political influence is too weak. During the global Great Depression, Ukraine did not fall into the arms of the EU, but turned to Russia. In the final analysis, in addition to a series of actions planned by Russian intelligence agencies in Ukraine and the firm position of the Russian authorities on the issue of Ukraine, Russia also threatened to send troops to Ukraine, the most important thing is Russia's political influence.

As Ukraine returns to the CIS, the pace of EU expansion in the east has also come to an abrupt end.

It can even be said that Ukraine became the terminator of the EU's eastward expansion. You should know that it was precisely because Ukraine finally chose to form an alliance with Russia that several countries such as Moldova and Seychelles who had tried to join the EU that they "changed their minds" and finally fell into Russia's arms.

In fact, political influence is not the biggest shortcoming of the EU.

Although the pace of eastward expansion stopped in front of Russia's iron wall, the EU's political influence was still prominent in the strategy of going south. If it were not for Tunisia, which opposes the absorption of Islamic civilization, the EU would have probably stepped out of Europe and become a cross-continental group of countries. Of course, the EU did not give up Tunisia, but only demanded that Tunisia promote democratic politics and reduce the influence of religion in national politics. In the southeast direction, with Greece officially announcing the launch of the NATO group, France

The country is actively lobbying the Greek authorities, hoping that this member state can make concessions on Turkey's entry into the alliance. Germany and Italy are actively lobbying Turkey, hoping that Turkey can withdraw its troops from Cyprus. In short, Turkey has not given up its efforts to join the EU, and several major EU member states also hope to gain a voice in the Middle East through Turkey. In fact, since the beginning of the electricity year, several major EU member states have helped Turkey carry out post-war reconstruction, hoping to take this opportunity to change Turkey.

In general, the biggest problem of the EU is its military strength.

Although at the beginning of the century, France and Germany established the symbolic "Euro Legion". They performed international peacekeeping missions in this capacity many times, and even participated in military operations in the former Yugoslavia. However, compared with any other international organization, the distance between the EU and the "military alliance organization is the most distant, or rather, the least like an alliance organization for security purposes. This is why the EU's military integration is not smooth.

There are two main factors that prevent the EU from achieving military integration. One is the NATO group thugs and the other is the London Treaty.

Before the old year, NATO was the main obstacle to EU military integration. Because most EU member states were members of the NATO group and did not need another security agency, these countries believed that there was no need to engage in military integration in the EU. The more essential reason was not just that there was no need to build two almost completely overlapping security agencies, but within the EU, no country could provide all-round security guarantees for other member states like the United States. That is to say, the EU lacked a core country with leadership. In fact, this problem has not been resolved. France, Germany and Italy formed a closer alliance because only when these three countries united can the EU have centripetal force. It is precisely because France and Germany had the first European legion to establish, and France, Germany and Italy established the "Joint Meeting of Ministers" in recent years. It took the most solid step towards political integration.

After the NATO group gradually declined, the London Treaty became the main obstacle to EU military integration, because within the framework of the treaty, the strategic threat to the EU will be greatly reduced. It can even be said that there is no serious strategic threat, so there is no need to maintain a sufficiently powerful military force, and naturally there is no need to achieve military integration. It is precisely because of this that during the negotiations of the London Treaty, France stood with Russia and became the most staunch opponent. The problem is that the opinions within the EU were not unified, and France eventually signed the London Treaty because both Germany and Italy supported the treaty and put pressure on France. The main reason why Germany and Italy supported the treaty was that they could take this opportunity to weaken France and thus improve the status of the two countries in the EU.

Of course, Germany and Italy are not opposed to achieving military integration.

In the long run, the gangster, Sichuan and Italy can become the recipient of military integration. It is precisely because of this that the thugs and Italy will actively integrate military integration and promote military integration with France.

The problem is that due to various factors, the military power of the Alliance is still far inferior to that of the Republic and the United States.

In 2019, a military coup broke out in Algeria. The Islamic student organizations overthrew the pro-European elected government and announced the implementation of the Islamic Code in Africa. Faced with this mutation, the first reaction of the EU was to withdraw diplomatic personnel and expatriates, and then to discuss military intervention. If the same thing happened in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, the first reaction between the Republic and the United States was definitely not to protest, but to send aircraft carrier battle groups and then order the troops stationed there to wipe out the rebellious organizations.

More importantly, whether to submit military intervention to the European Commission for review is definitely a disaster that is even greater than a military coup. You must know that according to the EU system, only if all member states agree can troops be sent in the name of the EU. Even if only one member state does not agree, for example, Luxembourg, which has only tens of thousands of people, believes that sending troops will destroy the image of the EU, then France, which has tens of millions of people, can only stare at it.

That's why when the European Commission was hesitant about whether to send troops, the French government decided to go alone. The reason is very simple. Algeria was once a French colony and the largest colony of France. France is the main immigrant country of Algeria. The Algerians living in France have more than a lot of thoughts, so France feels obliged to send troops to help the Algerian democratically elected government overcome difficulties.

With France's decision to send troops, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the Czech Republic, which were unwilling to fall behind, expressed their willingness to send troops, and formally submitted a note to France through the European Commission, hoping to launch military operations in Algeria in the form of multi-national forces. The reason for these countries' positive performance is also very simple, that is, they do not want France to dominate and turn the security issue of the alliance into the EU, not France's affairs.

Ironically, when these EU member states were ready to send troops, the Islamic student organizations in Algeria came to Taiwan by themselves, and the military coup broke out suddenly and ended suddenly. The reason for the sudden collapse of the Islamic student organizations was also very simple. Iran, which secretly provided support, experienced political turmoil, and the "pragmatic" in power followed the secret agreement reached with the Republic and no longer supported any extremist organizations.

In other words, it is not the EU army that changed the fate of Algeria, but the secret agreement between the Republic and Iran.

From another perspective, this incident is not entirely a bad thing.

Although the Republic's authorities do not recognize any relationship with the Algerian coup and have not taken this opportunity to make contributions, after all, the Republic and Iran signed a secret agreement rather than a public treaty, but EU member states all know that if it were not for the Republic's influence, there would probably be thousands of European soldiers who would have been victims of the serious lag in the deserts of North Africa and the southern coast of the Mediterranean.

That is why, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and the Czech Republic established informal "Conference of Ministers of Defense" and "Joint Chiefs of Staff" within the EU. At the end of that year, the plan to unify military forces was proposed, requiring the seven countries to first unify the main combat equipment and logistics standards, and then to unify the military command organization on the basis of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That is to say, from this time on, the EU's military integration has entered the fast lane and no longer requires all member states to join the military integration process. The new address of this site has been changed to: Just a moment...8. Please log in to the landing valve!

After the case, the EU's military integration has begun to show results.

According to the "Jane's Defense Weekly", the "European Military Alliance" composed of seven countries, France, Germany, Italy, Italy, the United States, has a military strength of second only to the Republic and the United States, surpassing Russia and ranking third in the world. Of course, this "third" is not worthy of pride, because it is only half of the United States and 40% of the Republic. Even if measured in the entire EU, the EU's military strength is only 70% of the United States, and the Republic's irrigation is far worse than the previous two.

Influenced by political and military strength, the EU's strength in other aspects is not satisfactory.

For example, in diplomacy, the EU's influence is not great enough. In the Middle East War of 2019, the EU did not exert its influence corresponding to its economic scale. You should know that the EU is Turkey's largest trading partner, Israel's second largest trading partner, Syria's second largest trading partner, and Iran's second largest trading partner. If it weren't for the poor diplomatic influence, the EU would definitely play a greater role.

Of course, the worst thing about the EU is its technological strength.

Because it has been dispersed into multiple countries, it is difficult for the EU to concentrate its power in certain cutting-edge fields like the Republic and the United States, and its total investment in technology is not as good as that of the Republic and the United States.

All in all, the EU gives people the impression that it is far less powerful than it looks.

In the saying goes, it means "strong outside and do it at the same time" with a huge body.

The problem is that no one dares to doubt the potential of the EU. As long as the EU can solve the main problem of blocking its progress, it can quickly grow into the third pole of the world and completely change the world pattern!
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