EU structure to replace NATO: We're already commited
https://www.janes.com/article/87589/...piracy-mission
As for signing up to things. Well May could well have agreed to these funds and structures, but that doesn't mean the UK is signed up to them. Why would we block the when we are on the way out. And once we are out and are therefore a 'third nation', we can't take part in PESCO without agreement - about as far from the UK being commited to an EU army as you can get. Frankly, it's just not worth losing any sleep over. Stick it in the bottom of the kids' rabbit hutch.
NATO is not guaranteed to last forever. One thing about coalitions that I learned after studying political and military history going back to about the Peloponnesian War: coalitions last about as long as they are politically useful to their members. Heck, Napoleon faced five different coalitions in 20 years time.
Would I rather see NATO survive? Yes. Warts and all, I think that the Transatlantic link matters.
But there needs to be a political reason, a compelling political reason, to keep any coalition together.
What is it?
Answer that question, and you have the answer on how to keep it together.
As ever, answers on a post card ...
But if NATO folds for whatever political reason, the EU and WEU need to be ready to stand up.
Are they?
Would I rather see NATO survive? Yes. Warts and all, I think that the Transatlantic link matters.
But there needs to be a political reason, a compelling political reason, to keep any coalition together.
What is it?
Answer that question, and you have the answer on how to keep it together.
As ever, answers on a post card ...
But if NATO folds for whatever political reason, the EU and WEU need to be ready to stand up.
Are they?