EU Superpower

Brexit seems to be a difficult thing. Not only because of certain people who voted "Remain" trying to block the way, nor because of the politicians who don't understand that their role in democracy is to deliver what the people ask for, but because what the EU is becoming.

There are suggestions of the UK having to continue paying into the EU for years after leaving. There are talks of an EU army. President Obama wants to keep the links with the EU over the UK.

The EU is becoming like a "United States of Europe". Threats have been made against the UK because of the desire to leave. Some people are working hard to try to stop the leave. In light of the US election, things have heated up.

Why is this?

My suspicion is that the EU is essentially a superpower. It certainly will be if an EU army is given authorisation. They can "bully" the smaller countries into doing what they want (e.g. by imposing payments for years to come), and if there's an EU army, they can go to war with countries who disagree with them. To be in charge of the EU is to have a huge amount of global power.

The EU currently doesn't have the military force to be a dictatorship, and if Brexit proves that leaving the EU is relatively straight-forward, other countries might follow suit, weakening EU power. By imposing financial conditions for leaving, the EU is trying to send out the message that it is better to remain.

The current problem is that President Obama wants to be united with the EU, reinforcing USA's status as a superpower and having global control, but President-elect Trump might prefer to be united with the UK - separate from the EU. The conflict here is whether a US-UK union would be stronger than the EU. Without an EU army, UK remains strong outside of the EU, and the EU is weakened. A problem for the EU.

But if the USA and EU are united, they become the global superpower, far beyond any other country. The UK is then shown to be weakened, which could scare other EU countries into remaining part of the EU. The EU would then be able to push for an EU army which, combined with USA, would far outweigh any other military force on the planet. Waging war would become much easier and could happen over trivial matters.

Global domination is finally achieved.

I wonder if an attempt for dominance is the real motivation behind the current situation.