[Cronos]

thanks, isn’t the EU enough of a union as it is?

Yes. the commercial union was fine, but I wonder if a defensive pact will really mean that Germany would fight Russia if it invades Estonia or Latvia...

[bert]

——Germany would fight Russia if it invades Estonia or Latvia...-—

If Turkey attacked Russia from the rear, would Greece help?

[Olog-hai]

What “commercial union” do you speak of?

I already pointed out that the European Economic Community’s chief purpose was to (as the Treaty of Rome puts it) “lay the foundations for an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe”. Therefore it was (and is) an imperialistic construct.

Putin is already building his own version of the USSR, calling it (either in tribute or mockery of the EU) the Eurasian Union.