[Moonman62]

If American history is applied the EU - the European Union will raise an army and ‘force’ Britian to stay in the Union. However, the EU most likely won’t have an ‘Abraham Lincoln’ sworn in in the next few months who will replace their current ‘James Buchanan’ as the Commission President...re: South Carolina - December 20, 1860.

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Lincoln let the secessionists fire the first shot.

[Iron Munro]

If American history is applied the EU - the European Union will raise an army and ‘force’ Britian to stay in the Union. However, the EU most likely won’t have an ‘Abraham Lincoln’ sworn in in the next few months who will replace their current ‘James Buchanan’ as the Commission President.

King Jug-Ears Hussein the First will become available in late January.

[Enchante]

it’s irrelevant because the EU has a specified, legal process for member states to withdraw

no one is going to be firing any shots in the EU (except for jihad terrorists, who still must be exterminated)

[katana]

Since Britain isn't an agricultural economy dependent on the continuation of a system of human bondage, and since she merely voted to leave (no artillery involved yet), maybe the better analogy is our first revolution, a revolt against rule by a foreign privileged elite we had no voice in electing. The secessionists had representation in Congress, just less than they were accustomed to wielding. Personally I think the southern States had a right to leave, but if there was going to be a war I'm glad the Union won. A south under a confederation and a severely weakened north, in a constant war over the west, would have been ripe pickings for certain European imperial powers.