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Well the lazy shit that I am I skimmed most off the above.
The UK will always have allies in Europe.
America's reason for having an opinion on the European referendum was the loss off troops in WW 1 and WW 2.
How many British have died defending Europe? A hell off a lot more.
We can and did have a referendum as a democratic country.
We are a big player in NATO.
And there are the big scary Russians to contend with, how many countries in Europe have a decent fighting force? Germany/nope/under occupation still, which has helped there economy a lot.
France/Military complex based on less imports think less foreign tech and just what they make there selves that is still pretty good. Mainly due to being able to defend there selves on there own, expected outcome after WW 2 and not very global community oriented as well I might add, then look at the Littoral combat ships that are being sold to Russia. (Not checked this story for over a year now might have changed.)
Eastern Europe will still be are friends and USA just for above reason alone.
They can't punish us as we would have even more cuts to are military and that would piss the USA off and we wouldn't be able to keep up are NATO spending making it even more expensive for USA.
Keeping Western Europe including Germany safe has cost the UK a lot off money since WW 2. And Germany has spent very little since then in comparison.
Imagine if the UK said sod you back would the French pick up the slack?.....NOPE
My point is we are still part off Europe as we are European and are still needed for the foreseeable future.
I think the Swiss have a decent fighting force and quite a lot of people there owns guns so I would not piss the Swiss off