Strength through Unity: The European Federation

Since time immemorial, the North European Plain, or NEP, has been one of the most blood-soaked pieces of land on this planet. Century in, century out, wars would be fought on the NEP for the simple fact that it is flat and fertile. Taking control over large parts of it was worth killing people over. This bloodshed came to a crescendo during the first half of the twentieth century, when Europeans of all stripes and sub-civilizations slaughtered each other with reckless abandon, permanently knocking the civilizational wind out of Europe and the West. As a result, the West and Europe in particular suffer from a tremendous sense of civilizational exhaustion to this day that it has yet to recover from. No one who fought in the two European Civil Wars won.

In the aftermath of the malaise, many European leaders decided it would be prudent to attempt to stop the wheels of geopolitical struggle from turning in Europe. The grand idea was economic and, in the future, political integration of the nations of Europe into a supranational organization so that past rivalries would be turned into potential avenues for collaboration, minimizing the chances of another conflict between nations of the same shared civilization from happening as much as humanly possible.

What started out as a simple customs union between the six most integrated European nations in Europe (Italy, France, West Germany, and BENELUX) has now transformed into an international confederation of twenty-seven nations, known today as the European Union. In addition to this, we have also seen the emergence of a free movement area in Europe known as the Schengen Area, encompassing all advanced Continental members of the EU as well as Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland.

In other words, the vast majority of the planet’s First World nations have decided to allow for cross-border collaboration between each other to take advantage of continental economies of scale, becoming far stronger than the sum of their respective parts. All of this just three generations after the most wonton bloodletting our species has ever known since the Flood. Partisan politics removed, many would consider these facts to constitute one of the greatest accomplishments throughout all of Western history: the prospect of a European Federation to embody the collective aspirations of the Continental European people.

One obvious caveat worth mentioning here is that leaders of such a hypothetical federation would have to be men with a strong sense of European self-identity, lest they continue the subversive agenda of the current EU and let in millions of unassimilable foreigners and dissolve the nation-states of Europe, something that has been addressed previously. Once this simple but difficult prerequisite has been taken care of, there are many reasons for someone of our worldview to be in favor of a federal Continental Europe.

For one, when one observes how younger Europeans live their lives, one notices that there are surprisingly few differences between them than several generations prior. A significant majority of those under forty in the Schengen Area are able to converse decently well in English and English is indeed the lingua franca of many multinationals operating in any major city in Schengen due to how cosmopolitan their workforce is. Younger Europeans, for better or worse, consume increasingly similar popular culture and media. Younger Europeans enjoy amusingly similar music genres, especially the many varieties of EDM. Younger Europeans are very well-traveled and are at least basically familiar with the main regional cultures of Schengen. Not so slowly, younger Europeans are starting to identify less with their respective nations or regions but as Europeans.

Secondly, the developed nations in the Schengen Area tend to be relatively small in area and population. While they nonetheless punch far above their weight on the world stage even after two generations of losing ground to the Western Pacific, there is only so much, say, Austria can do with less than ten million people. It certainly cannot compete with the likes of China, Japan, or even Korea by itself when it comes to product innovation, something five million-strong Finland’s Nokia found out the hard way. At some point, the next stage of economic and civilizational development can only be achieved by scaling up the population and geographic area involved.

This is where a European Federation would present a potential silver bullet. Currently, when excluding Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece, the Schengen Area is home to over four hundred million people who boast a high average phenotypic and genotypic IQ, a near-ideal breeding ground for perfecting commercially-viable fusion power, room-temperature superconductors, and long-chain carbon nanotubes just to name a few of the innovations the West is long overdue for.

In addition to this, increased cross-border collaboration between the nations of this hypothetical European Federation is something that interests young Europeans of all political stripes. Even the most nationalist parties in Europe such as Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz, still very much understand the benefits of European cooperation. As long as borders remain closed to the Third World, of course.

Such a hypothetical civilization state should ideally have its capital region in either its economic or spiritual center, which would be Frankfurt and Rome respectively. In addition to this, economic policy would also be wise to demarcate the civilization state into three sub-regions, namely the Germanic industrial heartland, the Mediterranean periphery, and the newly-advanced Intermarium, all of which will require different forms of tender love and care in order to bring the whole Continent up to a high standard. It will also be important to ensure that rather than competing with each other, the different regions and nations cooperate in order to be more competitive as a group with outside competitors (read China).

Should this be successfully executed, the European Federation would be able to hold its own against any and all civilizational rivals (again read China) even without the support of the other two potential Western civilization states.

In the last part of this series, we will discuss the third potential civilization state of the West: the relatively wild and free-wheeling Anglo Union.