Comments by "Grenade Tennis" (@hughjass1044) on "Why the EU is Annoyed with Hungary (Again)" video.
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The downside to these grand coalitions.
Seriously though, when you group this many countries all together; all with differing interests, issues, concerns and priorities, vastly different cultures, peoples, histories, traditions and the like, into some grand project like the EU, you're bound to get problems like this. Today it's Hungary and Poland. Tomorrow? Who knows?
Is it reasonable to expect them all to see eye to eye on everything? Is it reasonable to ask that if a much bigger and more powerful country like France or Germany were the one out of step with the rest, whether there would be such tumult?
Finally, one must evaluate the benefits that the troublemaker brings versus the negatives and what the consequences might be for expelling or ostracizing them. Very often, you find yourself in a partnership or alliance with another nation who for some reason, is a constant pain in the butt. You often find yourself asking - "is this really worth it?" Prime example - Turkey and NATO.
So the questions become 1) what CAN I do about this and 2) what are the possible ramifications if I do? Even if you could expel Turkey from NATO or Hungary from the EU... which you can't, so why are we even talking about it?... what other nation do you suppose would be right there like a dog at dinnertime waiting to scoop them up before the ink had even dried?
Sometimes there is no reason to stay aligned with a country other than to keep them out of the orbit of another much worse one. But that's very often a damned good reason, despite how much of a nuisance they might be in the moment.
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