Could the US join or create the European Coal and Steel Community and later EU?

Lets say FDR and/or Truman come to the belief during the war that major economic integration with the US and Europe is the best way to create a peace.

Could the US join the ECSC or create an equivalent with itself and Europe (and Canada)? If so, would it be able to later help create the EEC and eventually EU? Then, provided this level of integration in addition to NATO, could a joint military be created by the present?
 
I think in theory it is possible for the USA to join the ECSC (it is hard though). But if they join, the ECSC will never become the EU. It will just become an organisation for economic cooperation and never transform into the confederationesque* organisation it is now. The USA would completely dominated the EU if it would ever become a member. it is simply too big and too powerful.


*confederationesque as in resembeling a confederation, not as in resembeling the confederation from the American Civil war
 
I think in theory it is possible for the USA to join the ECSC (it is hard though). But if they join, the ECSC will never become the EU.
This. America's direct participation in this particular aspect of European politics would necessitate the formation of other organizations at the exclusion of the US. This is because 1. The Europeans do not want direct American participation in this aspect of their affairs, and perhaps more importantly, 2. The US doesn't want it either. The US has long resisted any effort to be subordinate or accountable to a transnational organization. The US Government's hatred for Boutros Boutros-Ghali springs to mind.
 
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