[mrweasel]

That would require getting a handle on economics, corruption and political mismanagement. It would take a decade or more of change. They could align themselves more with the EU, but remember: The EU cannot, AND WILL NOT, go to war over a small asian country, regardless of how it align it self with the union.

So Armenia would risk provoking it’s neighbors, with no way of defending it self.

So, yeah, the EU would need to grow a massive set of balls and build an army large enough to keep Russia away, and station troops in all EU friendly states bordering Russia. I’d call that a 2050 plan at best.

[mytailorisrich]

Turkey is a small, weak country compared to the EU and was able to send significant help to Azerbaijan.

It's not for the EU to be scared. They just need to setup camp in Armenia, then others will not dare attack.

The problem is to indeed grow a pair and show some backbone instead of always being scared and weak. Again, the EU is (or can be) a massive power that others, including Russia, will not cross.

[nanis]

> It's not for the EU to be scared. They just need to setup camp in Armenia, then others will not dare attack.

That should be the case but is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

Specifically, show me one country in the EU whose internal politics could sustain losing significant numbers of personnel in a proxy war with the second largest military in NATO.

[mrweasel]

The EU, it’s member countries and it general population have no grasp of the size, power and potential influence of the European Union and there’s almost zero interest in exploring it.

As a friend of mine suggested, one of the better routes the EU could take is to look to Switzerland and estabilish a confederation, with a single military, forereign policy and currency, but leave everything to the member states.