(opinion) Don't buy the bluff. Here's the truth about no-deal Brexit

[Denzil_DC]

14. I don't believe I'm missing anything.

I listen to Americans discussing their country's politics. I may not always agree with them, but I accept they have more skin in the game and a closer perspective on events in their country than I do.

The same respect in return would be welcome.

By turning so readily to "PUTIN!!!", you are missing the fact that the most baleful and consistent influence on UK politics from the latter part of the twentieth century to the present and beyond, covert and overt, has been American capitalist interests, in league with our own kakistocracy. As we face the risk of being subsumed as the latest US vassal state, that's a more relevant and urgent focus.

And then there are own people. Not everyone who disdains or hates the EU is a gull of Putin, convenient as it would be to find a big baddie to blame for the mess we're in. Putin's regime may be opportunistic, but don't bestow on it more power than it actually has, or the myth may become reality. And meanwhile, we'll be sold down the river all over again.