USA military is the biggest and most powerful in the world. But surely it doesn't want its biggest Nuclear ally to be given away to a competitor by deceitful Ministers?
Twitter: @VeteransBritain :-
"Still no Commons debate on UK membership of EU Defence, despite last week’s Defence and Security paper from DExEU and Olly Robbins which proposes to stay in it.
Then again, MPs wouldn’t have sufficient knowledge of the subject if they had a chance to discuss it.
UK Ministers don’t realise they’re being gamed by their own officials.
Last week’s appalling ‘Security Framework’ from DExEU is actually a defence framework too and uses ALL the EU’s language.
It leads on policing, but contains massive Defence commitments in the final six pages.
If the Brexit Implementation Period is due to lack of time to make changes, WHY did UK Govt spend time and resources joining all these EU military concepts in 2017:
• MPCC + trials
• EDA expansion
• CARD + trials
• CFM
• EDF + trials
• EDIDP
• CSDP expansion
• New Athena Mechanism
MPCC = Military Planning and Conduct Capability, the EU’s first central military HQ, which has decision-making capability in the event of a military emergency declared by the EU Council. UK participating in personnel and structure trials.
EDA = European Defence Agency expansion. UK ministers agreed an expanded budget and hugely-expanded role for the agency, now central to the EU Defence landscape.
CARD = Coordinated Annual Review on Defence. Member states submit defence budget plans and EU/EDA sends back incentivised changes and specialisms. Incredibly the UK has participated in trials since August 2017.
CFM = Cooperative Financial Mechanism. Set up for EDA member to pool finances to build military equipment, but equipment is also controlled jointly via EDA.
EDF = European Defence Fund. Controlled at multiple points by the EU Commission (or its policy) and administered by the EDA. EU Commission has coaxed UK defence companies into large, binding trials with the complicit assistance of the UK Civil Service.
EDIDP = European Defence Industrial Development Programme. Ministers allowed the EU to push this agenda unobstructed via the widening of the EU Defence Directive, the creation of the EDF and adjoining financial mechanisms and the involvement of UK firms, all components of EDIDP.
CSDP = Common Security and Defence Policy. Ministers approved functions which expand its remit. CSDP’s effects in the UK include a mandate for the UK Defence College, a division of MOD, to ‘promote’ CSDP and wider EU Defence in the UK including to MPs and among military staff.
New Athena Mechanism: repayment method for countries brought into EU-designed military operations. Enhanced to make contributions and repayments more formulated and rapid. UK ministers participated in designing and approving in 2017 and the UK is now in this."