I don't believe what I'm reading on this thread, who has suggested in even the most cryptic fashion the notion of Britain leaving NATO? And to imagine that leaving the EU may influence this in anyway is to deeply misunderstand the two organizations and how they relate. There have been a number of pro-EU politicians recently who have made highly subjective erroneous comments about the EU having been the preserver of peace since 1945, sitting in TV debates gently expanding their hands and putting the point as if it is plainly obvious. The EU, to reiterate, has had nothing to do with the maintenance of peace anywhere. If you like you could indeed argue (although it wouldn't be fair to hold the EU to account) that the EU came hand in hand with the Balkans conflict. So its existence, in its current form, coincidentally came about as Europe saw violent bloody warfare on its soil for the first time since 1945. NATO is separate, it meets a different requirement and is not European centric necessarily, although the majority of member states are European and its Head Quarters are also in Brussels. Its area of concern is broadly, the Western Hemisphere, North America across the 'Atlantic' to all other member states which stretch across Europe to the edge of Russia and the Middle East, Turkey and the Baltic States for example.
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