With Russian troops having
been in Ukraine for over four years by March, 2026, the case was indeed being
made then for the E.U. enlarging as much and as soon as possible by adding new
states, including Ukraine. For in addition to making it more difficult for
Russia to invade countries in Eastern Europe by turning them into E.U. states, the
main way that a federal union, whether the E.U. or U.S., expands is by the
accession of new states from what had been sovereign countries. This is why Canada
would enter the U.S. as a state, or, more likely, a few states, rather than in
a merge. Especially with the Russians having been dropping bombs on Ukrainian
people and infrastructure for years, giving up some governmental sovereignty was
arguably not too high a price for state governments to accept.
The full essay is at "On the Glacial Pace of E.U. Accession."
