Joe Noonan"In the absence of a broad social movement to support and protect them, leaders all face the same collective-action problem: If I stand alone I’ll be crushed.
The problem with this strategy is that it allows dominance to become a habit. Bullies who go unresisted keep on dominating."
- David Brooks
The writer is talking about the US but the sentiment applies generally.
This is why we benefit from having the need for UN Security Council or General Assembly consent for sending DF members out into an international military force.
Remove that, and we lose a key defence against that sort of phenomenon at EU level.
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