We are both speculating about motives. Self-preservation is common behavior of large bureaucracies.zamproject said:I don't think there is a EU motivation to make UK suffer just for the example, everything have consequences and a cost that's it :-\
NATO which is independent of the EU common market provides a (US) nuclear umbrella to balance against the threat from Russia. (I even served in one NATO maneuver (US army First Infantry Division) in Bavaria (1970) just across the border from east Germany where Soviet bloc military units were massed doing the same thing mere kilometers away. )EU can't fall because of brexit, other countries won't let this happen... (I'm sure some UK politician like to bring EU down with them, better for ultra-liberalism and business)
Also I don't get how some UK citizen can believe May will renegotiate ?!? this is a lie... like some of the brexit argument
EU was clear and repeat it all day long again, this one is the deal or no deal...
And last, about UK as "example", and why I think it's not necessary a pain wish from EU.
This is one point nobody never talk about, nuclear weapon, UK is fine alone, but now in EU only France have it, I don't see any country leaving EU, and lost this protection.
All NATO member nations are expected to invest a percentage of their GDP into defense spending, something like 2% by 2024. Only recently have they been prodded to meet those commitments and many still don't.I have no idea what is the cost for this, I think it's in the unofficial balance, and why FR is relatively free with it's "3%" since years
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Zam
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