#intermarium

But the fact that the reason Britain and France opposed the idea was "why would we want Eastern Europeans defending each other against the Germans and Soviets? The Russian Empire will be back soon anyway, so what's the point in upsetting the status quo?" is so on-brand for the West

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Cool flag and concept. Intermarium, if it ever came to realization, would have surely changed world history and probably the course of the Cold War.

Moja mała otrzyj łzy, Słyszysz szumią morza trzy, Śnieg na górach, w polach wiatr, Moja mała, moja mała, To mój dar.

The crisis within the European Union goes forward at a steady gait as the EU`s basic ideas have always been a destructive time-bomb. Military aggression Russian Federation against Ukraine, the struggle between the Syrian coalition and IS and, finally, "the refugee issue" have become catalysts for this phenomenon. Over the past 2 years, the EU has shown its inefficiency. Excessive bureacracy, ignoring the interests of Central and Eastern Europe as a part of the EU, weakness in the face of such challenges as the global terrorism, political and economic expanssion of Russian Federation, depopulation and population ageing - these are the main features of the EU crisis as a geopolitical unit

from /r/vexillology Top comment: *In 1921, after much compromising, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Romania united into the Confederation of Intermarium (Finland and Yugoslavia declined to join, but became allies of the new state). Intermarium was a loose confederation, where the different states could make their own local laws, but there was a unified military to defend the nation.* The Flag: The 8 stars represent the 8 ethnic groups that made up Intermarium (Polish, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, and Romanians). The blue represents the sea, implied in the name of the nation (between seas [The Baltic and Black Seas]). The red bars on the top and bottom represent the defense of the people of the nation (often in blood) so that they may never be conquered by any imperialistic nation ever again.