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Originally Posted by Damien
Maybe he interpreted Brexit as evidence of Britain disengaging from the world but that would have been an idiotic view that any half-competent analyst would have warmed him against.
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Would you have warned him, people who don't tell him what he wants to hear or displease him seem to end up falling out of windows
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He clearly wasn't expecting this unity from the West nor the resistance from the Ukrainian people but it's hard to draw the line from Brexit to that other than Brexit is just one of several things you could point to show a general picture of a divided West.
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Which is exactly the point Barney was making, interestingly he also pointed out there were plenty of people in America who were delighted we'd made ourselves and the EU weaker too