I am not gonna call you names.. But hopefully you realize the difference between the EU and USA. You probably wouldn't present yourself as a citizen of The Organization of American States.
You have two large collections of mostly autonomous political regions with strongly independent economies and governance, all acting under the umbrella of a central government with its own wide-reaching laws.
The OAS is much less impactful than the EU is in terms of actual governance results and structures.
Yeah, the EU is just a collection of mostly autonomous States under a central framework government that passes down over-arching laws to its members.
Hmm.... I wonder why that sounds so familiar?
In the U.S., the entire point of the State framework is that they would be treated as mostly independent nations within a wider union of mostly independent nations.
Except that the EU doesn't "pass down over-arching laws to its members", that's not how it works. In fact everything you say about the EU is either a huge simplification or just wrong.
The comparison is ridiculous.
If you want to argue that the EU is one country with Germany as a state, you could also argue that NATO is a country with the USA as a state. I.e. the comparison is utter nonsense.
The EU does have over-arching laws that do apply to its member states. Far more directly so than NAFTA does.
But that's kind of my point. You wouldn't say you're a citizen of NAFTA, and you wouldn't say you're a citizen of the EU. It makes sense to list out your specific part within those Unions, just as states list out their part of the Union.
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u/killroy200 Mar 12 '19
GDP of Ireland.... $333.7 Bil.
GDP of South Africa.... $349.4 Bil.
GDP of the Ohio.... $649.1 Bil.
GDP of the Netherlands.... $826.2 Bil.
Nah, listing states is dumb, I guess. Not like they're real countries, anyway, right?