As the lessons of history show, all great empires collapsed mainly because the authorities could not stop.

The desire to have more was leading to the loss of any control at all. Rome, Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire - all of these powers began to devour themselves from within, because at a certain stage it was impossible to control a large number of completely mentally different nations. The number of problems was increasing in proportion to the expansion of territories. Today, Russia takes 1\6 of the land, but “simply there is no money”. So it finds a foreign enemy, which is easier to blame for all the troubles, than to try to explain to their own people, why in the 21st century, a space power can not pave the roads at least in the largest cities, but it can bomb Syria for six months. The main thing is to make vodka cheaper.

Yesterday the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU. This is the beginning of the end. If initially the EU was supposed to be a strong fiscal union, the attempt to draw Croatia, Slovakia, and the Baltic states led to the logical recessionary consequences. Moreover, any attempt to unite under one banner so many different nations was doomed to failure. Well, it is impossible to try to unite the pedantic Germans and choleric Spanish by general rules. The recent empire - the USSR - also for 70 years has been telling the world that the Kazakhs, Belarusians, Yakuts and Estonians are one people. The truth is that in the USSR any protests at this were suppressed by a shot in the head, not a referendum.

When the EU consisted of the “locomotive” of European financial strength – the Old World countries - it was effective and rational. An attempt “to broaden ownership” maximally and take to the EU the countries, which obviously lose to their neighbors on any economic or social indicators, like in any empire - has led to a loss of control.

Now let's think about the vector of development of Europe without the EU: the European values ​​are attainable without a common treasury between the Czech Republic and Belgium. Or we cannot develop democracy, respect human rights and adhere to European values ​​without uniting into one union? It is clear that British do not want to feed the millions of illegal immigrants or refugees at their own expense. They quite reasonably do not understand why their - obviously more powerful country - has to give and pay when it can receive and earn. And why it is called the Union.

And the most important thing we should think about today is if really Ukraine, which is geographically one of the largest and most densely populated countries in Europe, will not be able to achieve peace and stability without joining any unions and alliances? Maybe it is just enough to put things in order in our own home? To expel the thieves from the government and the judiciary? And then who knows, the integration will not be needed.