United European Army?

Huh? The reason is the 2 fronts (US/UK and russia) otherwise russia would have been conquier as the rest of Europe. I think it's overestimate USA when someone says that USA alone win the WW2, as the same saying that we could have win without them.

 

I was going to say something about diversity, and what HUMUS wrote, but then Mrs. Skywalker said it, so ill just agree with her, pretty much completely as far as that line goes .

 

This is a little silly, of course Swedes expect its leaders to follow the law. Though Ch4Art8 surprised me a little, cause there are several politicians that has been caught with illegal activities and brought to justice. Had to look it up in Swedish and see if I could get a better insight in the intent of this article, and to my understand what it really says is that you can't be held responsible for whatever you do that is your work in the parlament. That is, if you in your work in the parlament does say some economic reform, and it ends up hurting people economically or otherwise, you can't be put in jail for that ... unless 5/6 of the parlament thinks so. It's supposed to protect politicians so that they can do their job without fear for being prosecuted for taking impopular actions. On the personal plane though, you're on your own. And as art7 says, you'll have to leave your position.

Yes, the US and Canada is much more diverse than Sweden. Though I think you're stretching it here. Yes, a large percentage, though not a majority, is from Europe (37%). Yes, we have immigrants from pretty much around the world too, not just 20 countries. I found 113 countries listed in the statistics, the rest was batched into groups like "the rest of Asia". And it's not almost all white and christian. 35% are muslims.

 

Ah, gotcha. Perhaps the meaning got a little off in the translation. That makes sense, though. They can't be prosecuted for not having the power to see into the future.

 

I was just making sure it was understood that the an EU citizen have some good rights, countering the original statement, that a US citizen has better rights (that exact quote was "Privacy rights are better in the US").
I never claimed that Europe was any better (we may have different emphasis on bits), just that rights here are second to none.

Its kind of ironic to have me defending the EU, I'm not the biggest fan, if the UK has to decide between the EU or US, I'd pick the US every time

IMHO The US has done far more good for my country than any other foreign country and their attitude seems to be about right (they generally stay out of things, but are willing to do things when nessecary). Doesn't mean I agree with everything the US does (I don't think the UK is the US's poodle) but our shared heritage and values tends to mean will view the world in a similar way.

 

Never said that and certainly didn't mean to imply it. A lot of US citizens believe that Germany was crushed between the two fronts it was fighting during WW2 and while that's not inaccurate I don't think most realize how much of the German army Russia destroyed. Could Russia have beaten Germany without western help? Possible, though unlikely, highly unlikely.