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 | | When France and Germany (full of Euronationalism and determined to create an anti-American block) opposed the USA's plan to remove Saddam Hussein, they caused the first major split in the history of the European Union, with Eastern-European countries, Britain, Italy, Holland, Spain and Denmark siding with the USA. |
 | | It was Chirac's attempt to paint the European Union as an alternative leader of the West that started the period of great instability (that is now, ironically, causing the collapse of the very Chirac regime that started it). |
 | | Part of it is euronationalism: the founders of the European Union are teaching younger generations to love Europe, and, inevitably, they have to paint it as a better alternative to the USA. |
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