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Daly
The same 5 assholes couldn't convince the U.K. To stay. The EU isn't going anywhere. As a "project" it is a big plus to Germany and they really do own Europe. The EU got put on notice this week. We are still friends but you need to pay your way with us too.
Brexit was 99% internal in the sense that the other EU leaders didn't really come into the discussion when the leave/remain debate was being held by our politicians/public. EU just had to hold its breath and hope. I was Trump style shocked as the results came in. Certainly wasn't how I voted.
btw I whole heartily agree that other NATO countries should be paying their way. But Trump suggesting they should be spending way more than 2% GDP on defence is ridiculous. And suggesting the US gets some kind of backdated refund from NATO is beyond farcical.
Nice little read here on where Merkel was coming from after she earlier bashed the UK and US in a speech.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffe...rewing-germany