• huey_m@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    They really didn’t grasp at all the sweetheart deal they had with the EU… other countries would have killed for that.

    It reminds me so much of the Americans complaining about their position in NATO and the “world policeman” that they fought tooth and nail to get because of the huge amounts of soft power it grants in negotiations and generally shaping world policy.

    The irony of a Republican working to undo that… Kissinger’s gotta be able to power a small country with how fast he’s spinning. Ultimately, good for the world in the end, but another pretty hilarious example of a nation misinterpreting a boon as an albatross around the neck and shooting themselves in the foot by getting rid of it lol. Rhymes so much with Brexit.

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      10 hours ago

      Yes, the privileged tend to think they are somehow entitled to their privileges.
      I guess both UK and USA have been fucking around too much, and are in the find out phase now.