It was just one tweet in a long thread about the European Union’s attempt to salvage a coherent future with the United Kingdom and its latest unelected Conservative prime minister. BBC Europe editor Katya Adler was making the point that EU leaders don’t want the U.K. to crash out of the EU without a negotiated deal, because that would be bad for everyone, and they’d love to find a compromise that necessarily includes resolving what to do about the Irish border. Except that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson doesn’t seem interested in negotiating or in finding the most equitable solution to a self-inflicted crisis. And then Adler posted this:
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With no deal now considered the most likely scenario by EU, the bloc is in self-preservation, damage-limitation mode, with EU leaders wondering how they ..and the EU as a whole .. can emerge from the Brexit drama as unscathed as possible /3
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Political leaders – like Merkel or Rutte in NL – very keen indeed that a deal be found. Aware of economic impact of no deal for them at home plus they envisage likely acrimonious EU-UK relationship emerging post no deal that they fear will serve Putin and Trump most of all BUT/4
It was so casual, so obvious, so taken for granted that it wasn’t even cause for a moment’s reflection. That’s what Trump, Moscow Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party have done to the United States. That’s what Trump, Moscow Mitch McConnell, and the Republican Party have done to U.S. national security. European leaders no longer consider the United States an ally. European leaders group the occupant of the Oval Office with a hostile foreign despot and desperately hope to prevent the unhinged British prime minister from serving their interests above Europe’s. And nearly two dozen Conservative Party members bucked Johnson, very possibly at the expense of their political careers, in order to protect Britain from its unhinged leader, but Moscow Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party will not do the same to protect the United States from Trump. They’re all in. Not just compliant, but fully complicit.
View the complete September 9 post by Laurence Lewis on the Daily Kos website here.