Comments by "EebstertheGreat" (@EebstertheGreat) on "Is the European Union a Country?" video.

It's not the same at all. The Constitution is explicit that federal law trumps state law and that federal courts trump state courts. That is not the case in the EU. When the EU passes a law, it is up to each member state to decide how and if to implement it. Many states simply do not do so, and the EU has no enforcement power, except to penalize them in the context of the union itself or eject them from it. No EU army is going to march on the UK the way Washington marched on Whiskey protestors. There is no sovereign nation that is really comparable to a supranational entity like the EU.
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@joseestevao2037 They don't have to do it. They are bound by treaties, but they can withdraw from those treaties. And as a matter of practice, EU member states don't implement everything they are supposed to. This makes them very different from states in the U.S. I agree that a better example is the WTO. The WTO establishes international courts to settle matters of international law, but it doesn't have the power to actually enforce the law. Rather, countries that do not follow their orders will be at a severe disadvantage in the global market. The WTO does not threaten any country's sovereignty.
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As pointed out by a number of commentators at the time, it isn't really necessary for the EU to have an explicit exit clause. It is a treaty organization, and as you said, it exists only by consent of the parties to the treaty. If the UK had wanted, it did not really have to go through the formal procedure. It could have simply declared that it had withdrawn and stopped paying fees or obliging its laws. That's how withdrawing from a treaty usually works.
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