• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Brexit was a disaster because the UK economy was third-place-and-shrinking in the economic block. They had no leverage.

    NATOXIT would be a much bigger deal, because the US is the premier global military power and the single largest exporter of weapons and associated tech.

    Also, the NATO thing is pure bluster in order to assert leverage over the bloc, while Brexit was a dog-catching-the-car scenario. The Tories invented so many fictions about how awful EU membership was that they couldn’t accept what generous concessions were offered. Meanwhile, Trump will happily take a big personal kickback for a small concession on arms sales.