Modern wars are just too destructive for that model of operations to continue in Europe. Unfortunately a lot of people seem to have forgotten about that so here they go again.
There is a difference in that European wars were fought by nations that more or less were on even footing with eachother and in peacetime heavily exchanged people, ideas, and culture, while in East Asia you had backwater nations that were at the mercy of the modern European powers and Japan. That's why I said in my OP nationalism is perceived differently. In Europe, especially the obvious candidate Germany, there is a sentiment that nationalism created unecessary conflict when the nations had so much in common with eachother.
Europe have been through the devastation of the world wars to teach them a lesson about the horrors of war. The Americans and the Soviets made sure that the whole world knew the horrors of fascism. It worked, until recently, where neo-fascism is becoming fashionable again. Only time will tell if the Europeans and Americans can manage to pull back from fascism before it starts another big war. The war in Ukraine is unfortunately showing that Europe is getting more tolerant of fascism. Some Europeans have even started to celebrate fascism. The trajectory for Europe is not looking optimistic.
An aside: What's your view on Pres. Duterte's trip and actual one on one meetings with China's leaders, especially able to meet Pres. Xi Jinping. I can already tell, read the usual political bashing Duterte will get from your country's media that are brazenly pro-America.Speaking as a Chinese and a student of history, we're the same before 1800's with the present Collective West in terms of attitude, We see ourselves as exceptional and invented the word Chauvinist...lol 中国 means middle kingdom and others as barbarian, it makes Joseph Borrell GARDEN look tame in comparison, we even build a wall to state that fact...lol
History is being written now as Xi had told Putin "the likes we haven't seen in 100 years", So I expect the Collective West will have their moments, I hope it may not last a hundred years like the Chinese had experience. And this time the Chinese will be the one who will implement those Changes...lol Karma sure is a bitch.
EU is politically united in the sense that they're equal vassals of the hegemon. Basically after WW2 destroyed their independent empires, they accepted that they cannot be emperor but are allowed to be princes and governors of the new empire. Good enough for them.
Why does the US bother doing any of the stupid things it tries against China? It should go look at the top students of every STEM class in the US and just call Beijing asking what their timeline for a transition of power looks like so everyone can keep civil and cooperate.
They are not as controlled as people think. much more freedom to pursue own interests as they know there demographic limitation. infact China and US rivalry will benefit them by gaining even more importance. they are part of new Europe project that will send old Europe into dumpster. back in days huge number of Toyotas were given to ISIS but no body figure out how it happened. and there support to Ukraine is very measured. just enough financial support to keep Europeans in there path to de risking.
