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The dream held by the Brexiters seems to be well and truly dead.

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[โ€“] tryptaminev@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I find it fascinating that Britain still aspires to be a global power, when the dominating vuew on the european mainland is it being just another western european country, with the carcass of its former empire still losely attached.

In terms of military projection, global alignment and influence the UK seems to be just as much following the US like most western european countries do, being far away from a global power.

I also dont think it to be a good idea to hold on to that pound as a means of power projection. The power projection make the currency powerful not the other way round. If there is no relevance to the trade with the UK and the currency anymore, it just withers away. The EU in the meantime is a single market with half a billion people. That is not so easy to go around economically and gives the Euro a certain power, even without further aspirations attached to it.