>>4224460Yeah that is true, today's politics really looks like it's about trumping the other group with any means necessary, just for rich people to get richer, but about the lingua franca discussion, in Europe for example there had always had been a language which was learnt the most because of its influence, like for example French was known by the english crown because they were under french influence and even french blood, hell in like 1300 the english monarchy even tried to claim France because of this Union, all monarchies and rulers in europe had to know other languages and let influence in in order to survive more effectively.