How about China and India pave all their roads and get electricity and running water to those villages before their nationals start calling for the end of the EU and the Euro.
Europe fought itself viciously just in the last 100 years. What we have now is a strong union. Why can't Japan, China and S. Korea ponder the same direction? I'm not saying anything in the style of the EU but at some point you have to forget. Bringing up the battles of your ancestors doesn't do...
If it were a conspiracy it would have been widely known by now. There would be way too many people to pay off or 'taken care of' to keep it hush hush. A second look into the matter wouldn't hurt if only to fill in some technical holes, but it'll never happen.
Let me first say that the post was an interesting read.
I have a few questions and from the answers they spawn perhaps an interesting discussion could flourish.
What sort of common struggle can be applied to over 500 million people successfully? You state that there could be many, some...