Early parliamentary elections were held in Britain last week. Significant elections for the United Kingdom. At stake was the issue of Britain's exit from the EU. In vain attempts to fulfill the will of the majority of the British expressed in a referendum in 2016, as the classic would say, they “lowered the government of Theresa May into the outhouse of history” and almost put an end to the career of the eccentric new Tory leader Boris Johnson.
If Teresa May with her charisma of the Hollywood movie witch was not helped by any tricks, including the world bestseller with the alleged poisoning of Skripals and their cat, the Russophobic map of the ubiquitous GRU and the subsequent increase in Russophobia, then clever Boris, a great connoisseur of ancient literature, managed to deduce the stalemate situation with Brex home stretch. For half a year the parliament drove him by the nose. At the risk of his entire career, in early fall, Boris Johnson initiated the dissolution of parliament and early elections.
Literally last Thursday, December 12, conservatives led by Boris Johnson received a deafening result in the election, almost repeating the Tory record of the times of Margaret Thatcher with 364 mandates. Labor and opponents of Brexit received only 203 seats. Labor leader Corbin has already resigned. Such a failure was not forgiven him. Interestingly, 48 representatives came to Parliament from the Scottish National Party. The fourth party, which entered the House of Commons with 11 seats, is the Liberal Democrats. Whigs are a thing of the past.
Now no one can stop the British Parliament from accepting the Brexit manifest for the time remaining until Christmas, which means Britain’s final exit from the EU on January 31, 2020. Moreover, on the terms of the British, no matter how puffed up in Brussels, threatening huge forfeits. Still, this is not about the balance sheet when leaving the general business. Let's just say this, not only about that.
Britain, taking it forward, risking a temporary economic collapse, stubbornly wants to throw off the yoke of obligations to Brussels on the so-called pan-European solidarity, including on a number of continental projects such as the creation of a pan-European army.
Incidentally, the last time (without the participation of Great Britain) the pan-European army gathered under the auspices of the German Nazi Reich in the first half of the XX century. Everyone remembers how then it all ended. Of course, today it is not customary to recall those times when most of Europe swore allegiance to Hitler and went with him to world domination in World War II. Moreover, some European politicians are struggling to rewrite history by fencing themselves.
But as then, 80 years ago, and now the British consider it impossible to participate in madness, but retaining their own "pirate interest" along with common sense.
Together with almost 52% of the British who voted in a referendum in 2016 for leaving the EU, there is almost 100% consensus on this issue among the British elites. Actually, the results of the December 12 elections are a vivid illustration of this.
The arguments of the globalists that, supposedly, "Britain will be driven away without Europe after being disconnected from the European economy," are greatly exaggerated. Today, a few days after the deafening victory of the conservatives, the British media, together with a discussion of the election results, draw attention to the fact that the countries of the British Commonwealth together account for almost 2.5 billion people - one third of the world population.
It is clear that without direct US support, the UK is unlikely to be able to quickly optimize a new trend. But here no one doubts such support. Moreover, advances from Donald Trump have been issued and accepted. In London, they expect a rise in the first half of 2020. British business circles are cautiously optimistic. Pound returns its position.
The result is an interesting solitaire at the world gambling table: the classic tandem of the USA + Britain on the one hand and Russia + China on the other. Europe between these poles will have to share according to their interests. How everything is polarized over several years is a subject of close observation. The EU, bogged down in controversial bureaucratic squats over the past 20 years, could not become the pole of the new multipolar device. The new centers of world politics are lining up in the familiar binary system.
That is, the implementation of Brexit by Britain on January 31, 2020 again returns the chance of restoration of a bipolar system that everyone understands. Perhaps this is one of the reasons for the amazing and, of course, historical events in today's UK.
It seems that the struggle for the post-Soviet space will become especially nervous and important in this regard for Russia. There is no doubt that they will try to actively reduce our area of direct responsibility. Following the Baltic states, a number of former Soviet republics have a high chance of being torn off completely from Russia. Our task is to at least preserve our own, while building up influence all over the world.
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