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by mytailorisrich 1954 days ago
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.
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nanis 1954 days ago
> 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.

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mrweasel 1954 days ago
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.

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