Originally Posted by
West Coast
What would NATO do in the event of an internal domestic dispute in a member state that threatened to topple the government?
Obviously this Euro army is notional and its charter is but a dream, but NATO doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to showing initiative to countering violence in Europe until forced.
It would probably behave in some non-optimal way and the desirable, achievable outcomes are probably few and difficult to reach anyhow. The point of having laws and courts, compromises and so on is to have ways to solve problems before they get to the point of fighting. Tensions build up between countries and inside countries without the need for them to be part of a union but a country/union has some mechanisms to cope with these issues besides a fight.