Another Brexit please

I wish England, by which I mean Great Britain and Northern Ireland, had a Brexit from America as well as from the European Union.

I wish we kept out of cold or hot wars with China, Russia or even Persia.

Had Stalin been clever he would have waited till the American troops left Europe before imposing Communism on Eastern Europe. But he was not clever and they stayed, seeing Communism as another Hitler. After the Cold War ended Nato, meaning American troops in Europe, continued and now the war in Ukraine means they will stay for the foreseeable future. 

Caitlin Johnstone says Nato exists to protect Europe from the wars caused by Nato's existence. 

It goes out of its way to threaten powerful nations and then justifies its existence by their responses to those threats.

Whether she is right or completely wrong, I see no British interest involved in British membership of Nato or British activities as America's henchman in the Middle East, Afghanistan or the Far East. 

I accept that with an illegal and murderous Russian invasion of the Ukraine, albeit one that Nato's existence provoked, this is not the right moment to leave. It would be misunderstood  and a godsend to Russia. 

(To remove doubt, I think Ukraine's fight back against Russia is admirable, like Finland's against Russia in 1939, which prevented Finland becoming a Russian satellite after 1945, although President Zelensky rather annoys me.)

Giving aid to Ukraine is a separate matter from whether we should or should not be in NATO. I suggest England leave Nato when this war comes to an end. 

At the least we should use the threat in our negotiations with the EU to get all we want.

A lot of the problems in the world are caused by historians. This is true everywhere. Especially in America. As the American political philosopher Paul Gottfried said 'All the major conflicts into which our leaders thrust us from the Civil War on, with the possible exception of Vietnam, are seen as morally desirable actions. … The U.S. is a land of morally driven, energetic presidents who have made us into the envy and dread of the world.'

Old man Biden is scarcely energetic but like George W Bush and LBJ he is trying to be Lincoln, Wilson or FDR. 

All were pretty bad presidents from an American point of view, though the latter two saved England's bacon. 

England is acting as Mr. Biden's lieutenant, as British Prime Ministers since Margaret Thatcher have done, except for that curious interregnum when Donald Trump was in the White House.

Mr Putin, though a wicked man, is not Hitler. Saddam was not Hitler. Nor Gaddafi, nor Milosevic. Some argue that not even Hitler was Hitler, if by 'Hitler' you mean someone with 'Napoleonic ambitions' to take over Western Europe if not stopped.