Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "EU ministers in talks over possible new defence body" video.

Defence is not intervention. This is the EU arranging the forces it need to bomb and invade other nations. The only way this is defence is if it involves preemptive military attacks. This is a very fine line, which the UK and US have often crossed, most infamously in Iraq, where the pretence for regime change was the manufacture of WMD that could be used against the UK in a matter of minutes. Maybe it's the UK's willingness and proven ability to cross this line that has persuade the EU to include the UK in these discussions. In other words if the EU wants to conduct a dirty little war over resources or conflict of interests outside the EU, get the British involved.
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