[Greg!]

Originally Posted by jaxie

An ally, what can Scotland do for the EU? Defend the borders of the EU against Russia? There won't be a military, you already overspent and don't have money for that or anything else. So apart from expecting the EU to keep you, what is in it for them? Why do they need an extra country who would be sponging off them rather than paying in to them? I'm not seeing your logic here on Scotland's attractiveness to the EU.

I don't think a requirement of the EU is going to war with Russia but whatever tickes your pickle I guess, that's your opinion. And why wouldn't Scotland have an army?? Of course they would. No country "sponges" off the EU, you have to pay into it to get the benefits of it.