The EU is inwardly inclusive. It doesn’t give a shit about Africa for example.
I honestly don’t buy into this. With the amount of resources that are spent every year on anything from building schools to distributing clean water and vaccines, saying “we don’t give a shit” is a bit of a stretch.
Regardless: I don’t buy into the idea that the EU, because it consists of democracies that respect mutual international agreements and don’t invade each other, has some kind of “obligation” to treat other countries with any more decency than they treat us. Put simply, the EU has gotten its shit together the past 70 years, and pulled huge amounts of people out of poverty. There wasn’t a bunch of international aid (outside of that coming from the US) to help us. I don’t buy into the idea that the EU now has some “responsibility” to pull the rest of the world out of poverty as well.
By all means, we should do what we can to help people, because that’s the right thing to do, and gives mutual long-term benefits. But accusing the EU of somehow being “unfair” for doing more for its members than other countries, or for being more involved in a war on its border than one on another continent simply doesn’t hold up. The primary responsibility of the EU, and any country, is first and foremost to the security and wellbeing of its citizens.
I honestly don’t buy into this. With the amount of resources that are spent every year on anything from building schools to distributing clean water and vaccines, saying “we don’t give a shit” is a bit of a stretch.
Regardless: I don’t buy into the idea that the EU, because it consists of democracies that respect mutual international agreements and don’t invade each other, has some kind of “obligation” to treat other countries with any more decency than they treat us. Put simply, the EU has gotten its shit together the past 70 years, and pulled huge amounts of people out of poverty. There wasn’t a bunch of international aid (outside of that coming from the US) to help us. I don’t buy into the idea that the EU now has some “responsibility” to pull the rest of the world out of poverty as well.
By all means, we should do what we can to help people, because that’s the right thing to do, and gives mutual long-term benefits. But accusing the EU of somehow being “unfair” for doing more for its members than other countries, or for being more involved in a war on its border than one on another continent simply doesn’t hold up. The primary responsibility of the EU, and any country, is first and foremost to the security and wellbeing of its citizens.