MaBritish ane dambudziko. Referendamu inoenderera mberi kuve nhengo yeEuropean Union yakarongwa muna Chikumi inogona kutungamira kuBrexit-Britain kunanga kubuda. Chero ani zvake ane ruzivo rwenhoroondo yehondo yeEurope anoziva kuti uku kungave kuzvikunda zvachose.
Achinyora muna 1751, Voltaire akarondedzera Europe so“rudzi rweripabhuriki huru, yakakamurwa kuva nyika dzinoverengeka, dzimwe dzoumambo, dzimwe dzakavhengana asi dzose dzinowirirana neimwe neimwe imwe neimwe. Iwo ose ane hwaro humwe chetehwo hworudzidziso, kunyange kana akakamurwa kuva kureurura kunoverengeka. Iwo ose ane nheyo dzakafanana dzomutemo wavose namatongerwe enyika asingazivikanwi mumamwe mativi enyika.” Asi vaivawo nehondo dzakawanda.
Makore makumi mashanu apfuura nenzira iyo Charlemagne, Voltaire, William Penn naWilliam Gladstone, varevereri vapakuvamba vokubatana kweEurope, vaigona bedzi kurota, Europe yakabatana yakava chinhu chaichoicho.
Hondo, nguva nenguva, yakadzora kuteverwa kwechinangwa ichocho. Kuenderera mberi kwehondo yevagari vemo mukondinendi yose, mumazana emakore, kwakapesanisa French nemaGerman, maBritish kurwisa maItalian, maCzech achipesana nePoles, maSerb achirwisa maAustria neSpain achirwisa maSpaniards achisvika kumagumo anotyisa muHondo Yenyika 1 uye 2. Sezvakanyorwa naJan Morris mu "Makore makumi mashanu eEurope", "Makore Makumi Mashanu eEurope", maive makorokoza, migwagwa yakapwanyika, migwagwa ine mawere mumigwagwa mikuru. Mhirizhonga. Kwemakore ose hapana imwe kondinendi yave iine hondo yakawanda kudaro.
Vazhinji, kana vasiri vazhinji, vechizvarwa ichocho vakashamisika muna 1945 kana vaizoona Europe zvakare mune chero mamiriro enyasha kana mbiri, zvakanyanya kubatana.
Nyaya yekuti chido chekuviga chipfuwo nekugadzira masangano akajairika chasvika pari zvino munguva pfupi ichipokana nemamiriro ezvinhu akadaro zvine nharo zvepasi rose, kubudirira kukuru kwezvematongerwo enyika kwezana ramakore rechimakumi maviri. (Kutevera Declaration of Independence, zvakatorera US makore anoda kusvika makumi mapfumbamwe kuti itange mari yakafanana; Europe yakafamba nzira imwe chete mumakore makumi mana.)
Asi uku kushamisa uye kukunda kubudirira kunobvunza mubvunzo: chii chinonzi glue chinozvibata pamwe chete? Mushure mezvose, chii chinonzi Europe? Nezvenzvimbo, haingori peninsula inobuda muvhu reAsia. Mutsika, yagara iri mitauro, vanhu uye tsika. Zvematongerwo enyika, mabiko anofambika enyika makumi matatu neshanu dzakazvimiririra muIron Curtain Europe, mapfumbamwe akagadzirwa kana kumutswa kubva Hondo Yenyika II.
Chokwadi chitendero, kwete zvematongerwo enyika kana musika mumwechete uye mubatanidzwa wemari wakaita kuti Europe ive imwe, yakabata pamwe chete kuburikidza nekuchinja kwayo uye hondo dzeropa (dzakawanda, zvinosuruvarisa, zvechitendero) uye zvakapa hutsika hwakafanana hwetsika uye kuzivikanwa kwakafanana kwakaita kuti EU, iite kuti mari imwe chete ishande, chibvumirano cheShengen chinoita kuti pasipoti-isina mafambiro ichigoneke mukati mechinangwa chikuru cheEurope, mubatanidzwa wezvematongerwo enyika mangwana.
Achitepfenyura kuGermany yakakundwa muna 19, mudetembi TS Elliot akayeuchidza vateereri vake kuti pasinei nehondo uye “kuvharwa kwemiganhu yepfungwa dzeEurope nokuda kwokunyanyisa kwourudzi, zviri muchiKristu umo unyanzvi hwedu hwakatanga, zviri muchiKristu kuti mitemo yeEurope—kusvikira munguva pfupi yapfuura—yakadzika midzi. zvazvinoreva.”
Ehe, nhasi munhu anogona kubvunza kuti machechi emazuva ano eEurope emari, mitambo, TV, pop tsika, eroticism uye Ryanair inobhururuka chero kwainoda zvine chekuita nei nenhaka yechiKristu? Zvakadaro, chokwadi chiri kuburikidza nekuchinja fashoni, kuburikidza nehondo huru nediki, pfungwa yeEurope inoramba iripo ndeyechiKristu- kubatana kwemitemo uye rugare muhukama. Pachezvayo, kuzvida kwehupfumi kwaisazombogadzira EU uye, nguva pfupi yadarika, mubatanidzwa wemari. Mubatanidzwa wezvehupfumi, wemutemo, wezvemagariro uye wemari wakafambiswa nguva yese nevarume nevakadzi vaive nemaonero akanaka uye vane chiono. Kubva kuna Jean Monnet, muvambi weEurope yemazuvano, kusvika kuna Helmut Schmidt, Valery Giscard D'Estaing, Francois Mitterand naHelmut Kohl, vavambi nevagadziri veEU neEuro, kuda kubvisa zvikonzero zvekurwa uye kuumba masangano anofambisira mberi budiriro yedemocracy yakafanana chave chiri chinangwa chikuru.
Europe haisi yekutanga uye yekutanga pfungwa yezvematongerwo enyika kana nyore mari. Chinhu chakanaka. Saka hazvizombofi zvakaperera. Tichazvishandisa muupenyu hwedu hwose, sezvichaitawo zvizvarwa zvinotevera.
Kuti vaBritish vasarudze kusabuda izvozvi zvinongogona kuitika chete kana vepamusoro vakadzidziswa kuyunivhesiti pamwe nehutungamiriri hwemasangano evashandi veEuropean (vazhinji vacho) vakadzidzisa veruzhinji nezvenhoroondo uye zvinangwa zveEurope.
