The Roma treaty, the first step in the creation of the EU was signed in 1958. Since then, the EU enabled common decision making, economic and regulatory integration. It's highly probable that without these treaties tensions in Europe would have escalated and the economy would have been far worse.

Ce n'est pas que personne n'y avait pensé, le problème est que c'est très difficile de se protéger de ce genre de menace, on a donc privilégié l'approche réglementaire tant que la menace restait "accidentelle".

The worst may come sooner if the midterm disaster I expect actually materializes. I don't see them easily accept being neutered by a democratic majority in the senate and congress.

Especially considered that I A chat bots are not designed to perform reliably this kind of analysis.