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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rafael Behr

Brexiters can’t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on

Trump gives a thumbs up as Putin rolls white paint over an EU flag

Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn’t feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea on the European Union.

According to the Vote Leave frontman, Vladimir Putin’s land grab was a consequence of Brussels making foreign policy “on the hoof” and having “pretensions to running a defence policy”.

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