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I'm beginning to get a very worrying picture of you RF! Enoch Powell! The BNP! Everything will boil down to money interests in the end. Navies exist to protect trade and simply, for the commercial interests of shipbuilders and maintaining jobs. I'm not being critical of this. I embrace the idea. Rat...

The EU is essentially a trading organisation. And, as has always happened in the past, a trading association of nations forms into a political union. Although, in Europe's case, we don't all speak the same language.

... in, let's say, twenty year's time?

My "What if..." also goes for the development of better carrier-borne aircraft. Britain could have had an essentially modern navy, based on carrier task groups at the beginning of the War.

The Bismarck episode might have been different; if not, strategically, significantly so. However, the Mediterranean campaign would have been very different. With naval forces and convoys better able to fight-off air attacks, Rommel might have been defeated months earlier than he was.

... instead of battleships in the late Thirties and early Forties?