This is probably why politics should stay banned here, considering a non-adjacent topic triggers rants like this.

> Except that everything that is shitty in the EU right now has been the consequence of the last ~20 years of EU leadership and individual EU member policies.

at risk of being autistic: no, not everything

plenty of shitty things is happening for reasons utterly unrelated to that

Some (or even all) EU policies being dumb does not make impossible to have problems caused by something else.

For example Russia was directly involved in making migrant crisis worse.