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The EU is set to exclude the US, UK, and Turkish arms companies from its €150 billion defence fund if their respective countries don't sign agreements with Brussels. That is of course.
Why did the UK not threaten to leave Nato as a bargaining chip during Brexit negotiations?
Because the UK is ruled by what Dominic Cummings calls the Blob and Messrs Trump and Vance consider is the transatlantic deep state (think William Hague).
Many countries have deep states. Romania (cancelled election) and the UK (Brexit struggle) are two obvious examples.
Some do not, such as Israel. Netanyahu is able to swat away, so far, the opposition of the courts, the generals and the secular Ashkenazi left-of-centre establishment that ruled the country after 1948 until Begin and the Likud (successors to the Irgun) took power.
Menachem Begin was responsible for the taking of 91 lives, 28 of them British, by blowing up the King David Hotel in 1946. The Irgun which he led (they killed hundreds of British soldiers and police) became the Likud. By definition the Likud were extremists at odds with the Israeli socialist establishment, but birth rates for religious Israelis mean that the Likud is now the centre, not the far right, according to a respected British journalist based in Jerusalem, Matthew Kalman.
ReplyDeleteThere is no deep state, except in the addled mind of the conspiracy theorist.
ReplyDeleteAddled back to you, anon.
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