The European Union is using its power to force Hungary to abandon conservative policies and prioritize the agenda of larger member states.

“Fundion said we have to seize this opportunity to shut down basically shut down voting rights for smaller countries under a certain population so that the bigger countries can decide what's better best for Europe.”

European foreign policy is currently paralyzed and failing because it is driven by a single-issue obsession with defeating Russia rather than serving Europe's own strategic interests.

“there's absolutely no sign that that Europe wants to pivot to a multipolar world at the moment. Uh it has become a single issue foreign policy and that single issue is defeating Russia and it's failing at that.”

The European Union lacks a strategic vision for a post-hegemonic world and is intellectually trapped by its reluctance to accept the new global distribution of power.

“well, from my perspective, this seems like a key weakness, though, for for the Europeans, the the inability to I guess put the have any imagination for a post-hegemonic world, a world where the political West aren't unified and they aren't in a dominant position.”