O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

[SmiffyPie]

No, I'm sure they wouldn't change their positions. I can only repeat what I said earlier - The EU would be a bit stronger with us in it, and we don't have the power to do a lot on our own.

No we don't have a strong military force thanks to successive, shortsighted, defence cuts but what we can do, as we are doing, is lead a European response.

[Elite_Pie]

No we don't have a strong military force thanks to successive, shortsighted, defence cuts but what we can do, as we are doing, is lead a European response.

I've long been of the opinion that many scoff at - an EU army is a good idea. Defence spending takes an obscene amount of what's in the pot, but it has to be done as a deterrent because there are some very nasty people in positions of power. Armies are only really needed in times of conflict, the rest of the time we have to have them as a 'just in case they're needed' scenario. When there are no wars, armies spend their time on training exercises at huge cost, so spread that cost around. I don't want to upset forwardmagpie again, but we can't take that option because we decided to leave the EU.

Bloody Brexit yet again!