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I have written about Brexit on several occasions, and as a matter of principle, I refuse to do it in this essay.
Lately, everything is being explained and justified by Brexit.
I don't believe that it could be. Doing so is a gross simplification.
Perhaps the West is truly an anti-socialist, anti-Communist entity. Perhaps that is why it keeps overthrowing left-wing governments, all over the world. Perhaps that is why it keeps voting in the most unsavory individuals one could imagine.
Perhaps the U.K. deserves the rulers it gets.
There is one little nuance that is being constantly overlooked: the U.K. is not really against Labour. Remember Tony Blair, a closet Thatcherite, and a man who served as an advisor to the murderous Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, responsible for millions of lost lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo? Blair is also a man responsible for hundreds of thousands of the lost human lives in the Middle East. Remember? Well, he was so-called "New Labour". But that was obviously just fine, as far as the British voters were concerned.
And there is one more 'little nuance' worth mentioning: almost the entire Europe is moving to the right; towards the racist, self-serving right. And it is not only Europe that wants to stay in the EU, or Europe that desires to leave the bloc. Both parts are heading in a similar direction.
Perhaps, after all, the voters deserve their leaders!
Right-wing "leaders" are thriving. While rationality, decency and kindness are kicking the bucket in agony.
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[First published by NEO - New Eastern Outlook - a journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences]
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Five of his latest books are "China Belt and Road Initiative", "China and Ecological Civilization"with John B. Cobb, Jr., "Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism", a revolutionary novel "Aurora" and a bestselling work of political non-fiction: "Exposing Lies Of The Empire". View his other books here. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky "On Western Terrorism". Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and Latin America, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website, his Twitter and his Patreon.
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