> join eu > enter "honeymoon period" where your country gets stuffed with eu funds (about 2 election cycles) > much of this is turned into welfare which gives an illusion of improvement > meanwhile, better-situated and more efficient western corporations dominate your market > your local economy can't compete and slowly withers away > the eu funds are deliberately designed in such a way that (part of them) are easily embezzled, this works as a bribe that will buy up your entire mainsteam political elite, so no serious party will be willing to take you of the eu > you enter schengen. your intelligentsia moves abroad. your country will have only the shittiest doctors and teachers left in it, who will then demand to be treated by royalty because they are so scarce > honeymoon period ends. the eu funds you still receive are required for your country to stay afloat since competing with western corporations have withered your local economy. > this dependence allows westoids to blackmail your country into complying with increasingly insane, ideologically-driven demands (mostly of the neoliberal and cultural-marxist kind) that spit on your sovereignity and plays havoc on your society refute this
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