[geysersam]

> the EU is toothless and lacks the spine to twist some arms in order to see its interests represented on the world stage.

The rhetoric right now is just bizarre. Why should the EU force countries against their will using military? Do you have zero idealism or regard for internationally agreed upon rules? Do you want a world where might is right?

[budududuroiu]

> Do you have zero idealism or regard for internationally agreed upon rules? Do you want a world where might is right?

Internationally agreed upon rules don't come from first principles, they're downstream from power. The world was, and will always be, might makes right.

[joe_mamba]

International rules are meaningless without hard power to enforce them.

Your rules in your country are real because you have judges and police to enforce those rules.

But internationally, there's no planetary police force(other than the US when it wishes to act like one), so solving disputes is dependent to how strong your military is, or on you capability to inflict pain on the offending country through other means like economy or trade.

That why the US walks away unscalved from international conflicts and the EU keeps getting buried further.