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inglor_cztoday at 4:53 PM0 repliesview on HN

One of the advantages of the veto power of every member of EU is that the bloc is unable to turn into a new global (or even regional) policeman, however strongly a simple majority feels about Israel, Iran or anything else.

It would be unlikely anyway - European voters prefer butter to guns, sometimes a bit too much - but this makes the probability zero and I am happy for that. This continent is dotted with mass graves from a thousand previous wars, stretching to at least the Late Stone Age. Constant wars were one of our curses, and our ancestors launched way too many crusades for various holy causes.