Kasparov told me again and again in his book, but it didn’t
really hit me until I googled the performers in this song.
The weakness of Putin’s regime is the indispensability of
the party cities of the West as gangster chic accessories.
Which got me thinking about Brexit. I think on the balance
it would be a good thing. But... there is a hopeful vein of commentary on the ‘right’
in the Rebel Colonies that a United Kingdom no longer in the European Union
would naturally orientate towards the ‘United States’ to a greater degree. It occurred to me there is another possibility that is
equally likely. Like Israel, that other independent nuclear power resolved not be absorbed into Eurabia, the United Kingdom could move closer to Russia. It is
the only nearby alternative to the feckless and unreliable nation across the
Atlantic: for whatever happens in November,
the leader of the ‘United States’ will be more dangerously incompetent and
uninterested in foreign policy than any previous President in the history of
the Republic.
And I wonder – I am sure that the rank and file supporters of
Brexit are sincere – but how many of the influential high-profile converts will
turn out to be covered in Russian pocket lint, when the last trump sounds or the
next big tranche of secret files is leaked by Anonymous?
Here’s the original version of that song.