JDG wrote: > >The most analogous situations to the emergence of a world government are >the formation of the United States from 13 mostly independent colonies and >possibly the formation of a future Federal Europe. The latter is still a >work in progress, and indeed looking less likely all the time to happen, so >it cannot be assessed. The United States, however, formed in large part >because of the existance of a common outside threat: Britain to the East >and hostile Indians to the West. I'd argue that the formation of a true >world government will not happen until such time as humanity perceives the >existence of an outside threat that necessitates such unity. > Maybe what will be formed is a World-Minus-USA g*vernment, if the "rest of the world" perceives the USA as a threat. I don't know if it was a joke or not, but some European leader claimed that the EU should expand not to the East, but to the SouthWest - to include South America.
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