Edited to add that I would not agree that the EU has a bloody past, though it may well have a bloody future. It is Europe that has the bloody past and the irony of the EU is that its formation was to prevent that past becoming the future. As to me being a member of the EU, you are right of course. Hence the present dilemma the United Kingdom finds itself in...
The only irony, Chug, is that the chances of the "bloody future" you fear for the EU are only increased by Brexit, not diminished by it.