Quote Originally Posted by blue matt View Post
So Argentina invade the Falklands again, we then have to go and ask the EU ( who control the armed forces ) if we can go and take the Falklands back, they call a meeting and vote on it and come back to us and say " no go, little old UK, we wouldnt want to upset any trade routes with the south Americans "

Oh sorry Falklands, you are on your own now, cheerio
Presumably us and all of the other nations would want firm guarantees on what would happen in the event of things like that happening before they joined.

France has a lot of overseas territories too, I can't see them agreeing to anything they thought would prevent themselves from defending it.