post brexit

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My grandfather fought in the war and lost his brother and many many many friends. Each village and town knew the names of those boys and still remember them now.

You do realise that a primary founding aim of the EU is to ensure further European wars don't happen don't you? And while all 27/28 countries are in it, the potential for another war are massively reduced. Consider though if each individual country leaves the EU like the UK wants to? With 28 free, non-aligned, separate countries all open to other external influences, don't you think the potential for conflict will rise somewhat?

Also France lost in excess of 1.1 million soldiers in WW1, 30% more than the UK. In WW2 France, in being liberated, suffered c 70,000 civilian deaths directly caused by the allies (not the Germans), 40,000 of those in the months leading up to D-Day. All European countries suffered massively in the last two World Wars, wars that Great Britain didn't win on their own by a long shout.