(January 15, 2020 at 9:39 am)Mr Greene Wrote: They weren't exactly falling over themselves to assist at the time.
The buyers of the French Exocet stock were us, we paid top whack to ensure we were highest bidder on every missile on the market, the French had their best sales period ever because we knew they weren't keeping their word.
Of course it would have helped if the French hadn't sent the launch data the missiles as promised, but hey can't get that sort of advertising every day.
Yes but the French weren't the ones doing the fighting were they. My point was that they're not going to sell weapons to countries while simultaneously sending their own troops in, which would be the case with an EU army.
(January 15, 2020 at 9:39 am)Mr Greene Wrote: We could barely mount the op with what we had if we'd been forking out for an EU force it would have been a no-go.
It wouldn't work that way. It's not like the UK would be funding two armies, their own and an EU force. In the same way we don't have a UK army and a NATO army.
If an EU army were set up, either all EU countries and their territories would be defended, or a country would be free to use their army to defend their own territories instead of being part of an EU army. There's no other way an EU army would get set up otherwise.
