(July 16, 2016 at 7:04 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I still think the EU's rejection of turkey 10 years ago was a catastrophic blunder that both put real geostrategic power in Euroasia out of the reach of the EU, perhaps permanently, and set turkey on course to where it is today.
No, I don't think it was a blunder. Turkey doesn't comply with many of the values of the European union. If there was any blunder of the European Union, it was expanding too quickly before setting up a course for the future. That way countries joined that weren't ready for the journey. They only were interested in the economic aspects but not the political ones.