Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the creation of a unified European military force, saying the continent must be self-reliant amid a persistent threat from Russia and uncertainty about U.S. support – a situation he described as “this new reality.”
And please, this time make it possible to eject someone in peacetime with a 3/4 or 2/3 vote.
We’ll see what happens. Unfortunately the Europeans don’t have the same cultural affinity as we do and seem a bit behind on understanding the situation.
I don’t know about that. What if Poland goes right wing Russian for a single election. Gets ejected. Russia invades Poland. Then what? If you are then going to protect them, there was no point to the ejection.
IMO it needs to be a permanent union to be strong. Like the United States after the Civil War.
The point would be they can’t vote on things during that period, and you have the option not to defend them. As it is, with no ejection mechanisms, we’re seriously talking about NATO invading itself now.
It’s funny choice of example in light of the US being the problem here. That being said, it was after that point a country and not a supranational organisation. They had a federal government with direct elections, and when states got out of line they could and did federalise the local national guard.