@mynotaurus afaik it's because america is a federal government, i.e the states of america are a single country combined that can't leave, whereas in europe, each country is their own entity that can leave the EU at any time.
I think federal comes from federating local government tasks to the states, allowing them to have some autonomy in some ways? but not sure, would have to look it up
@anthropy theres a weirdly long wikipedia article specifically about eu being kind of a federation but not really, i just discovered
im not too fussed about the details of it all, i just wanted to check what the heck this word smuggled into my vocabulary by americans actually was lol
@mynotaurus
afaik it's because of the difference in how it's set up; the USA is a single country that's divvied up (federated), whereas the EU is a union of singular countries.
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