re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The EU seems to be a pretty big boon for smaller militaries/economies. Some of the larger countries see the negatives as being outweighed by the positives (France) and others not so much (UK). The UK has always been kind of a maverick though, with the a "we will just sit here on our island and watch you guys do whatever you're going to do" philosophy at times.

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The UK has never adjusted to its diminished stature on the world stage with the loss of its Empire... just like Putin. A lot of people could not stand being one member state of a Union. That's from friends from there who say when they were growing up there was always someone in the family ranting about leaving the EU, then a couple of Gin and Tonics later imagining they could take back India or something. But things have changed and the UK economy is not the global behemoth it once was... it is dwarfed by the US and China. It is the size of one state in a Union.

The vote that happened was the result of a big chunk of the population thinking they were just voting on something to spite Cameron and not understanding exactly what they were asking for, a lot of people voting on fake things that were pushed like "Closing the Open Borders (it's an Island... they control who comes in)!!!" and a lot of the poor were rightfully resentful of the current dynamic where they could not educate themselves up the ladder because companies in their super class-conscious country were just hiring privileged people from mainland Europe instead of college grads from less privileged working-class backgrounds.

Brexit was a mistake... the UK is worse off than it was and will probably ask to be readmitted at some point.