When the pandemic ended, Europe faced a complicated situation. National governments had cooperated extensively during the crisis, infrastructure networks had merged out of necessity and borders had lost practical significance. At the same time, populations remained psychologically fragile. Loneliness had proven deadly, love had proven dangerous leading to conclusions, by political leaders, that the continent required a new system capable of maintaining emotional stability.
Thus Eurostate emerged.
Eurostate did not abolish conflict. Instead it institutionalized the new reality. If society had already shifted toward linguistic warfare, governance would simply formalize it.
The sword had shrunk completely. Now the word would rule.