I just read some brief articles about Blanik – it sounds more like an issue of one agency than EU as whole. And then, if everything else fails, there are always international courts. Although if that case was submitted to international court, it is most likely still in proceeding as it usually takes few years. All in all, if it was issue of state – would you blame whole republic for mistakes of one branch of administration? In “worst” case scenario government would be blamed I guess, but not artifical person of state (EU).

Anyway, as was said on last conference I was on – “Nationalization of success and Bruselization of failure” – it is loved to blame EU for all bad and to omit all good. EU is mostly about open market and about ensuring that it remains open, setting same rules for all and et cetera. And you have to agree that EU is doing a great job in here. It boosts trade, by which raising wealth of countries and that directly reflects on everything. It is not exactly the topic of my “expertise” but I can give you some insights if you would like on pertinent EU law.
Also, EU is funding or giving ground for funding a lot of research in unprecedented scale. The heck, EU has even functioning Fusion reactor. There are also extensive education programs for students.
And protection of human rights and EU citizen rights on EU level is also really high. It gives another safe check to already existing systems of human rights.
Then there are systems to help poorer countries develop – which pours great amount of € into east EU. And as globalization is present everywhere and there is also open market, it helps both – EU as whole, i.e. all member states and it helps the state in which investments come – as it ever further boost its development. Look up how much EU dotations makes in your home country. And you know what is the best? As the open market influence the global market and helps to unite regulations – EU is able to make money by itself, mostly by customs. So again another benefit of EU, as without these regulations, customs were bypassed. Corporations always look for a way to bypass them but if regulations are united, then there is no way to do it.
And do not foget other benefits EU brings, like open borders for travel. Simplification and unification of things like electronics, ID cards, insurance, acceptance of documents from fellow member states, really important – customer rights protection – in this field EU did tremendous job and many, many other fields which greatly influence us and gives us benefits. As it was said on that same conference – 70% of national legislation is made as direct or indirect result of EU legislation. But you will not hear about that, they will tell you it is made because of EU only if it is deemed bad. And also, there are problems with wrong transposition of directives, which is again fault of member states, not fault of EU. Or when officials of member states keep quiet and after all is done then speak – if you are from Slovakia – look for example at current crisis in Ukraine and Slovakian minister of foreign matters – before Ukraine (Crimean) crisis, he was one of 3 candidates for next High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy – quite frankly the most visible function with a lot of influence. And what happened? Domestic politics caused that he was left in back, I doubt he still has a chance to win that position. And then there will be cry that there was no chance for some country like Slovakia to be heard – even when Slovakia could get one of the most important positions. EU also helps fight corruption, which is one of the reasons why EU is hated – nobody likes to have someone looking over his shoulder if he is not stealing. About EU bureaucracy – it is bad, but in different way than what common citizens think and definitely not as bad as they think. Problems are with structures of top institutions and the process of accepting regulations, directives etc. Bureaucracy in sense of EU organizations is not that bad, as member states transfered part of their competences to EU, so instead of each state having 5 people working in one specific field (5×28 states), only one is left in each state and 5 are in that EU organization (28+5). This was really simply put but you should again see my point.

Fear of Federalization, of loss of suverenity were always present in EU, from its start till today, for more than half a century. That was the main reason for failure of Treaty establishing a Costitution for Europe – it did not establish any federation, it just shared legal terms common for national law and people confused it with actual constitution. Result was rework – reform treaty, nowdays known as Lisbon treaty. Lisbon treaty, although using different aproach, maintains content of former treaty without any significant changes to its actual meaning. And as you can see, Lisbon treaty is in force for few years and EU is still not a federation :) Lisbon treaty is quite interesting topic and if you would like, I can provide you with more information about it.

And EU is not dedicated to US. EU had great deal with Russia for example, which now makes sanctions problematic and so does with many other countries. It may seem that EU and US are closer as they more or less have really close demographic, similar market, similar customers. After all, what does EU almost exclusively use, Vkontakte or Facebook? That was just simple example, but you get my point. EU and US got similar culturural development. Russia always had their own ways, as somewhat crossroad between west, east and south, while being separated by wast empty space in between them and the rest of the world.

Concerning B2 – the problem is, their approximate location can be guess by some long range radars as well as by traces of tankers and et cetera, but it was kind of expected they may not return after strike. But this is all talk about mechanisms to ensure utter destruction, backed in a way (by all sides in possible conflict) that there were like 4 ways to destroy whole world, or to destroy it multiple times in other words – but there would be no winner – which was point of it, to deter all from using them.

And about technology becoming obsolete – well, that will always happen. Take warships as an example – before WWII, from time when ship was laid down to the time it entered service it was already obsolete, that was how fast the progress went on. Or take how expensive was development and miniaturization of computers. When iron curtain had fallen, Russians simply bought it for much lower cost than what was spent on research and utilized it in upgrades of their weaponry. Similar case was with US buying technology of Russian shuttle. This are just facts of life and everyone counts with it when they develop something. Or like Russian development of aircraft radar, which was then given to west by deflector (MIG25 IIRC, which rendered said Russian advantage obsolete for that time.

About one specific task in NATO – if you talk about Slovakia – it was us who decided that we will do only one task. NATO wants us to be as prepared as possible, again – it is failure of member state and only member state should be blamed for that.

About US exporting military – well, Russia exports weapons to anyone who pays. They both can shake hands.

About RVHP – the problem was, it was not working. As it was pointed from the start – some parts of economy may be planned many years ahead, but most can not. On the other hand, while RVHP struggled to keep us afloat, Marshall plan brought prosperity to both US and West, it was win win. Anyway, I would never say we own anything to Russia because of RVHP as Russia was in great debt towards eastern block (which they payed by gifting military equipment, IIRC for Slovakia some MiGs, for Czech republic some Mi24s)

About 1968. Well, not that many died, but we were occupied for decades. They ruined our economy, they ruined our society, they ruined our enviroment. And when we tried to change that, they came with an army.

Anyway, finaly normal conversation, thank you

About EU …Those things with food…. you explanations sounds so nice..but i have seen a reality and it was awfull. My friend lives close to logistic centre used by supermarkets…. Once we was in the field with his dog and we saw a HUGE heap of vegetables and fruits…. it was looking good..no moulds no stink…. it looked same as goods in supermarket. First i was thinking that it must be contaminated by some shit….OK for me…. it was bad. so they put it away….but that hill of fruits raised week to week….. so we decided to find out wtf happened….. guy from the logistics told us that those food just “DDINT MEET THE EU REGULATIONS” …we asked why??? there were no chemical laboratories there so they cant did chemical tests….. Then i saw all those internet facebook shit about sharing shit for people in africa…WTF??? Why share pictures on FB???? In fields of my city is a HUGE HILL of good food…. but..EU dont want them to eat …they just want bussiness……………………..
From another part of the EU life…. Did you heard about L-13 Blaník? It was is Czech all metal sailplane…one of the best in the world for training….. and most manufactured sailplane ever… EU BANed it… try to find out why… make yourself a research…. If you are interestd leave me a e-mail adress and i will provide you plenty of information about this cause…
First i liked EU very much…i told myself that it will be great when all european countries unite … like those wooden rods from roundel of Reggia Aeronautica… unite to be strong and sovereign…but what its worth??? EU is ful of byrocracy and dedicated to USA…. and that is not OK for me.
About F-117… you did not catch the point….. Whole milion dollar stealth technology became ruined by some skilled mans eyes… And read something about system Kolchuga or Czechoslovak KRPT-86 Tamara..or his newer variant Vera? Those passive systems can seek even stealth aricrafts … just two trucks with huge antenna…. Stealth is not enough…. and when no stealth is counted..B-2 as an aircraft really sucks…. Even 50 years old Tu-16 was faster…. Russians just found out that speed and electronical countermeasures are much better way to penetrate enemy anti aircraft umrella….

Every Pole knows that it was a drunk polish soldier (Franek Dolasa) who started WW2. Then 4 tankers (three Poles and one Georgian) and a German Sheperd riding a T34-85 ended it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_I_Unleashed_World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czterej_pancerni_i_pies

So far i have not found a english translation for theses documentaries. Too bad because they are real eye openers.

You rant again about useless crap about shape of food and yet you know nothing about it. You know, it was not passed as a joke, dont you? It was concerning quality of food and to provide healthy, non rotten, non damaged, non chemically altered etc food. But some moron turned it into “law on exact curve of banana” and you believe it as it is put. Just a bit of thinking or even better, searching for purpose of it. But no, rather avoid it, what if your unreasonable belief was ruined.

I did not call you an idiot before, so do not put your words into my mouth. I just said that you are short – sighted, which you are, once again proved. I prefer reasonable discussion and I prefer using reasonable arguments to prove my point, I did not need to call anybody idiot to prove my point.

About that Satan again; really? Are we using argumentum ad absurdum? Yeah, with 20Mt you do not need to “hit Obamas eyelids”. You do not even need rifle. You can also kill with stick. Or with spoon. This is turning into nonsense with you, if it continues like this, you will soon post pictures how Putin rides a bear and say that is proof of Russian superiority.

And one more thing; You jump out of your skin when talking about Russia yet you say you are from EU / NATO. Interesting question: if one day war starts and your beloved SS18 lands on your head, will you be happy then? Because right now, no matter how much you hate that idea, you are on this side of barricade right now.

I love to see people rant at EU and whole west and yet enjoy western life. And your awesome personal experience on Mi26. Yeah, great argument. You certainly have many years of experience also with Chinook and Skycrane for example so you can put real comparison based on all their pros and cons.

And this joke: “(…)discrespect to country with such powerfull army (…)” Sorry mate, to earn my respect you need more than to show of force.

And that crap you wrote about F117 – it was mostly caused as a human mistake, but cudos for the officer at AA that saw it and took advantage of it. Nevertheless, it has nothing to do with stealth. And B2 has much, much smaller cross section than F117, but that is not the point.

Heck, I wont even try to reffer to all the crap you poured out of your … something, anything. The way you talk, the arguments you use, the so called knowledge you give, all that and more is like if some teen said that, but sadly if one is ignorant at young age, he will remain one even when growing older, so you may be well in your 20-30 years. Discussion with you leads to nowhere as you fail to put anything to the table except absurd nonsense or repeating what you said.

Well, as you already called yourself an idiot, I will use the “old saying” – Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.” This is great refference to how discussion with you looks like and all that your experience.

P.S. If you will try to kill yourself in sepukku funshi manner because of your possible russian pedigree and my chinese computer i have some suggestions for you…Dont do your suicide by train… it can be annoyng for people in that train …. same with the jumping in front of the car…. You should not jump into the river too…cos recovering of your body can be quite expensive and very unpleasant for those frogmen. Dont hang yourself too.. If you jump from too small chair you will not brake you neck and it will be very painfull death for you…. from the other hand..if you jump from higher your neck will colapse completely and your dumbass head will fall of.. so it will be very unpleasant experience for founders again. I recommend you to use some pills :)) Have a nice day Mr. MaybeHalfRussian imbecile