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As Britain’s relations with the European Union finally come to a climax, the United States can be grateful, once again, that contrary to the preferred outcome of most makers of American foreign policy, the U.S. national interest will be well served, by a lucky bounce. The United Kingdom is the fifth-largest economy in the world, and probably the fourth or fifth military power, and because of its immense contribution to Western civilization, it is one of the world’s most respected nationalities. Instead of being subsumed into the polyglot, bureaucratically mismanaged and socialistic Babel of the European Union, Britain is about to opt once again for its relationships across the broad oceans as a continuing sovereign country.
For decades, the State Department — and all the post-Eisenhower administrations except Nixon-Ford, Reagan, and Trump — have endlessly urged Britain into Europe. Under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, this was a plausible position for the purpose of putting metal up the backbone of wobbly European NATO allies and stiffening them against the neutralist tendencies of Germans prone to eastern Wagnerian forest murmurs, and Gaullist France, tempted by a chimerical, ludicrously implausible notion of guarantor, in place of the Anglo-Saxons, of Western European security.
The founding chancellor of the German Federal Republic, Konrad Adenauer, committed possibly the greatest act of statesmanship in any country since the Second World War when he declined Stalin’s offer of German reunification in exchange for German neutrality, and carried German opinion with him. In those times, British intimacy with the continental Western European NATO countries would certainly have firmed up the alliance, but it was academic, as the French president, General Charles de Gaulle, vetoed British entry anyway, twice.
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(5) Mark Carney FINALLY drops project fear as he admits UK ready for no deal
