Agreed...
This guy I mentioned prided himself in being a world traveler. Lived in Australia for five years. They travel around the globe meeting new people. It’s evidently his thing.
I can’t imagine doing all that traveling, and not seeing the value of Britain or the United State’s standards, and the need to maintain them.
A better one is to have a kind of wider Swiss confederation (like the old pre-Napoleonic Swiss confederation), where the constituent parts are fully independent, yet have common cause against outside aggressions. This was initially mooted post Napoleon by some guy whose name I can't remember now :) but the idea was a confederation of confederations Europe with entities clubbed together by common historical and linguistic bonds, so an Iberian confederation (Portugal, most of Spain bar Galicia, Basque and Catalan), a Langue-d'Oc federation with Catalan, Provence and Savoy, then a English area, a Celtic area (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Galicia, Brittany) etc.
It was also mooted by ArchDuke Ferdinand as the United Central European state (to convert the Austro-Hungarian empire into this)