“Within fifty years these Babel governments” (the democracies of Europe) “will clash in a gigantic war for the markets of the world.” But perhaps out of that madness will come the unification of Europe;—an
World War I, European Union.... Nietzsche was very prescient in a way on this point. Though it doesn't speak to World War I feeding into World War II before a postwar European unification movement should take shape.
