[ArrogantBustard]

How is it that this statement by his highness didn't set off alarm bells across the world?

Because most of the world doesn't invent offense where there is none. How would you say "Empire" in German?

[Olog-hai]

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Because most of the world doesn't invent offense where there is none

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It also seems that "most of the world" is oblivious to offense when it abounds aplenty too.

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How would you say "Empire" in German?

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Relevance to the particular phrase? Nobody says "Heiliges Römisches Imperium" you know. His Imperial Highness invoked the Reich in terms of the European Union. And eighteen years after that, Jose Manuel Barroso called the EU an "empire". Invented offense when none exists?