@Peregrina
I was saddened to see LouiseCollins28 response of feeling pretty good about Brexit. It's good is it to see countries having to rearm themselves? If the armaments are used it causes death and destruction. If not it's money wasted which could be better spent elsewhere on housing, health or education. I am no particular fan of Churchill, but jaw jaw is better than war war.
For all Johnson and Truss's grandstanding we as a nation have shown ourselves up pretty badly - slow to operate sanctions which ought not to have been necessary if we hadn't welcomed so much Russian money and a shameful record on the refugee situation.
However I was really intending my post for those Brexiter MPs - Gove, Rees-Mogg, etc. etc..
I might have misunderstood your post. Though I am still feeling pretty good about Brexit nonetheless.
I thought you were asking how do people feel about countries wanting to join the EU? My answer to that would be the same, pretty good. If the people of former Soviet bloc countries want to join the EU and the EU wants to let them join, all good IMO. Just so long as it's the people who want to join, not just the government.
Look, I might not have any love for the EU but if people genuinely think that's a better future for their country and want their nation to join, then all power to those people.
I recoil when I see that an organisation affirmed by itself and its advocates as being set up to secure peace in europe (the EU) is now trying to create an alternative military alliance and supplying funds for weapons.
The way I read that is that EU nations who overwelmingly won't spend enough to adequately defend their own citizens will, as soon as a cause celebre gains traction, start funnelling 500m Euros to defend the people of a country that isn't even a member state. I find that astonishing.