And one of the unmentioned points in all this, which I think is just as significant as any of the economic implications, is that here we have seen an experiment to force political/economic/cultural union onto a group of nations who are similar to each other in terms of their history, civic institutions, ethnicity, etc, and it's still a disaster. Yet we are told, breathlessly, that some sort of pie-in-the-sky global governance is an inevitability? They can't even make it work on one continent, how could it ever work on an even larger scale? Any political class that cedes sovereignty to some nebulous international "idea" is, quite simply, being traitorous to its own nation and should be dealt with appropriately when their machinations inevitably go bust.