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It's hard to build union states. That's why they put it in their name. European Union United States of America United Kingdom Indian Union United Arab Emirates Union of Soviet Socialist Republics By default, Europe once looked more like this: https://t.co/iVfeIaQ1jR You gain a greater appreciation for why people build union states when you understand the cycles of history. Thanks to Sardar Patel, India today is more unified than it's ever been in history. China arguably is too. Meanwhile, the US is unfortunately disintegrating. But in 1947-1950, it was exactly the reverse. The US back then was highly unified, while India had just gone through partition and China had just ended its multi-decadal civil war. Over decades and centuries, the chaos of decentralization leads to recentralization. Then the oppression of centralization leads to decentralization. "The empire long divided, must unite. The empire long united, must divide. Thus has it always been."