Keystone

[dukealien]

we all know
big flags alone
can pacify

Good point - Europe "wasn't big enough" to hold France, Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy (with Russia and Britain at the edges trying to either get involved or remain uninvolved, unsuccessfully).  The problem is, the EU has no language or emperor... which sort of vitiates the usefulness of its (frankly) insipid flag, however large.

Perhaps what we need are flags with history rather than - like the EU's - flags against history.

Nice short poem, by the way.