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How are you so sure it would work? We are not talking about one relatively small and homogenous nation which could carry on through the frustration of limited s
by rini17 5y ago
How are you so sure it would work? We are not talking about one relatively small and homogenous nation which could carry on through the frustration of limited souvereignty. We are talking about whole middle third of the continent with simmering ethnic, religious, etc. tensions. If West just slapped the door on them, the results would be catastrophic, there would be several additional Yugoslavias between Berlin and Moscow. EU brought the stability and prosperity to whole region and nobody including Hungary and Poland autocrats want to lose that.
- twelve40 5y agoNothing is ever guaranteed. However, taking a failed state that has never in 31 years had a coherent government, had multiple coups, has been the poorest country in Europe, has been run by the same thugs for the last couple of decades despite those coups - basically, a European version of Somalia - and lacing it with Western weapons and military instructors does not seem to be the wisest idea. (or even a good path into EU, for that matter)
- rini17 5y agoWhat is done right now, is another question. The topic here is about past failures of the West. When all realistic alternatives were worse - that forced neutrality would likely create Ukraines and Yugoslavias spanning whole middle third of Europe - is that actually a failure?