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And what is the absence of rule of law and (in some cases) human rights abuses coupled with full-throttle sovereignty? Because that's exactly what you get with

• microcolonel 7y ago
  > And what is the absence of rule of law and (in some cases) human rights abuses coupled with full-throttle sovereignty? A national tyranny, which I'd argue is still better than an imperial tyranny. > Because that's exactly what you get with much of EE and the Balkans. Lots of talk of sovereignty and lots of examples on how that sovereignty is being squandered and misused. I honestly think that a lot of those countries (my own included) would be better off without that sovereignty. I'd argue first that that's not your call to make; but failing that, we don't know what the enlightened sovereign Eastern Europe looks like, because the people you probably like the most (educated, middle and upper class) are busy leaving, and it seems to me that the people are fighting politics on two fronts (as far as I gather, the local politicians who use their weak constitutions and electoral systems to win elections with minor vote buys to crooks and desperate elderly people in the countryside; and Eurocrats who do effectively the same thing but with better haircuts).