[aquila48]

When the Common Market was founded in 1957 it was mainly a trading alliance with a bureaucracy set up to oversee it. Like any bureaucracy, it’s main mission is survival and expansion. And so, of course, over the years, the elites that ran it looked to gain ever more power, and they have been very successful.

It’s why the founders called for “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”

I find it extremely encouraging that Trump has embraced the exact same policy. It’s why he’s against NAFTA and TPP and TTIP. He made it very clear that he favors bilateral agreements, rather than monstrous thousand page agreements among many countries that end up superseding our own constitution and doing away with our sovereignty. It’s exactly how the european countries ended up where they are.

[Olog-hai]

It was an alleged trading alliance with specific political goals, including the “ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe”, “common action in eliminating the barriers which divide Europe” (blatantly Marxist and straight out of the Manifesto, per the “desire to abolish countries and nationality”), instituting a “common commercial policy to the progressive abolition of restrictions on international trade”, ASOASF. No mere trading alliance would stipulate such things, but an empire would.

Now of course bilateral agreements are the more stable of foreign trade policies, but we of course will have to project our power to insure that such socialistic-minded people who are the other parties to the agreement(s) do not violate them.