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Well everyone is entitled to an opinion; but I find it hard to subscribe to the extreme example being used to portray what the EU would do with combining it's extant armies. Saying they will handle Hungry like Russia did is pretty far out there seeing as I am rather versed in what happened in '56 and know that few really know just how bad it was when Russia came walking back after having their occupation force overrun.france sends french security forces to suppress french anti govt, protestors, there's only so much they will do. plenty of cases where police joined with anti govt protestors and let them do their thing to a certain extend.
but replace those local french security forces with a bunch of foreigners who come from some place 1000 miles away, dont speak french, dont know any french people, dont give a single fuck about the french or france or whatever the fuck, now none of that exists at all. no restraint, no ties to the land, just a soulless foreign occupying force free to brutalize the locals at their overlords command.
plus, again, theres the situation where brussels would use it to crack down on dissident countries or governments. they're already turbo seething about poland firing some commie judges and hungary building border fences against refugees, but for now they can't do very much about it because the only instrument of power they have available is bureaucracy which is notoriously slow. but give them an army and they'll handle poland/hungary like the ussr handled hungary and czechoslovakia 50 years ago.
You are using the most extreme examples painting a picture of utter totalitarianism which we haven't even seen deployed in China or Russia, but you are saying the EU would unleash this in an instant. They have armies and have not done this and the idea their neighbors in France would walk in an trample all over citizens next door is simply preposterous.
It is outlandish.