Why can't Europe be united as a nation?

@SunshineGirl LOL i never understood why australians compete there too 😂😂
or azerbaijan and izrael .. what a silly show HAHA

@erika88 Technically, yes, they're all on the same continent.

@erika88 If they are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) they can enter any Eurovision event, not just the Eurovision Song Contest.

@sunriselover smartest move leaving the eu

@sunriselover Trouble is, the EU is moving further to the right, and individual nations within it are veering to the right. Portugal being the most recent example after its election.

@jackieash I have not followed that one. But that is bad news.

@SW-User too many communists

@SW-User Indeed a good question.

@SW-User For the same reason Brexit occurred: both events are in line with Dugan's vision in his magnus opus (Foundations of Geopolitics), which is pretty much Putin's operative manual.

Relevant bits:

- Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

- The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe

Bonus:

- Ukraine (except Western Ukraine) should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics".

[quote]We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within…[/quote]
- Nikita Khrushchev

@ElwoodBlues I agree

@redredred And proudly so.

Stuff the UK and it’s isolationism.

@sunriselover looking at Europe today, I can’t thank my ancestors enough for leaving. 1500 years since Rome fell and you guys still have over a dozen different languages, and even more borders separating tiny little countries. I speak the common (but not official) language of the neighboring states and all but one Canadian provinces.

Great cheese though.

@redredred I live partly in Spain and in the UK. And have lived in France. There is a rich common cultural heritage. I miss the Eastern European diffusion into our country.

So where is the UK to turn to, surely not the USA, a failed msn made Utopia. Our links with Canada are slender and our links to Australia are all but non existent.

@MasterLee capitalism is no sunday picnic either, and actually worse.

@MasterLee There are no communists in Europe!

@Carazaa Certainly not in any position of political power, any way. In fact, Europe is veering towards the far right.