After the revolution of 1776 is newly independent US states were much like the nation-states of the EU.
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Welcome to our Federalist Papers e-text. The Federalist Papers were written and published during the years 1787 and 1788 in several New York State newspapers to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed constitution.
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[O]f all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority. ... Alexander Hamilton
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Federalist Papers: FEDERALIST No. 74
Whether you like it or not; We live in a world with little justice and in a world where the weak are eaten.
"One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible" ---
Genghis Khan, to the Mongol tribes
If the nation-states of the European Union have one army they will never fight against each other again, barring a civil war like the US had that was based in "states rights."