Josef Joffe writes: The UK and the EU will be net losers if Brexit is actually consummated. If so, here will be only one winner: Vladimir Putin. Without little effort of his own he can look forward to Britain adrift and Europe in the worst crisis since integration began in the 1950s. Never in history have so few (36 percent of the British electorate) done so much damage to so many nations in such a short time—as the British have done during the Brexit vote of June 23. – Hoover Institution’s Strategika
Andrew Roberts writes: Remainers tried to make Leavers look like irresponsible warmongers for wanting to remove Britain from the EU, and will doubtless make the same argument for any other country that wants to escape its coils. Yet as time goes on and nothing happens, the argument will lose its potency, assuming of course that nothing is done to weaken the true organization which the continent needs to thank, the one that ought to have won the Nobel Peace Prize: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. – Hoover Institution’s Strategika
Andrew Roberts writes: Remainers tried to make Leavers look like irresponsible warmongers for wanting to remove Britain from the EU, and will doubtless make the same argument for any other country that wants to escape its coils. Yet as time goes on and nothing happens, the argument will lose its potency, assuming of course that nothing is done to weaken the true organization which the continent needs to thank, the one that ought to have won the Nobel Peace Prize: the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. – Hoover Institution’s Strategika
Four days after a decisive vote to leave the European Union, Britain was consumed on Monday with questions of when and how the country’s departure from the bloc will happen — and increasingly, of whether it will happen at all. – New York Times
Britain on Monday accelerated its possible date with destiny outside the European Union, bringing forward the selection of its new prime minister by a month in a move that may help assuage European demands for a more rapid withdrawal. – Washington Post
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stood firm against calls to step down on Monday, appointing new members to his top team after a wave of resignations in protest at his leadership after Britons voted to leave the European Union. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
The meltdown that has taken place in the days after voters decided to break the country’s ties with Europe is more than a British problem, reflecting an erosion in public confidence that afflicts democracies around the world. – Washington Post
In the days since Britons voted to leave the European Union, the so-called “Brexit” referendum has created such severe turmoil that public attention is increasingly focused on an extreme option: Can they get out of it? – New York Times
The United States looks unlikely to follow through on a threat to relegate Britain to second-class trade status once its ally leaves the European Union, as it weighs the potential costs of undermining the countries' close diplomatic and military ties. - Reuters
Kurt Volker writes: The rulers of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States—take your pick—are so convinced that they know better than the masses, and that they are building a better world, that even in defeat, they are bemoaning how wrongly the masses have voted. And that is the looming danger for the future that the Brexit vote foreshadows: that elites will still not address the concerns of a large proportion of their own citizens. – The American Interest
Max Boot writes: It is too soon to say which way the situation will develop, given how many wild cards are still in play. Assuming that Trump-style isolationism does not take hold on the other side of the pond, the U.S. can play a useful role in urging Britain to continue working with Washington to provide much-needed security for the international community as it has done for decades. A good sign that the “special relationship” still exists would be to move expeditiously to negotiate a U.S.-U.K. free trade treaty. - Commentary
Josef Joffe writes: Liberals should listen for their own sake. The middle is not the mob. Ceding the forgotten to the Mussolinis of the 21st century will speed the victory of illiberalism, the common enemy of us all, and a tragedy worse than Brexit. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Michael O’Hanlon writes: To be sure, one can always find some hypothetical scenario in which having the UK outside of the European Union complicates life. To be sure, pulling out will make life temporarily harder for British and European diplomats and bureaucrats as they fashion a revised European order. And most of all, it is true that we need to take seriously the skepticism about globalization that UK voters have just voiced in a powerful and emphatic way. But the postwar global order is hardly falling apart – USA Today
Britain on Monday accelerated its possible date with destiny outside the European Union, bringing forward the selection of its new prime minister by a month in a move that may help assuage European demands for a more rapid withdrawal. – Washington Post
Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stood firm against calls to step down on Monday, appointing new members to his top team after a wave of resignations in protest at his leadership after Britons voted to leave the European Union. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
The meltdown that has taken place in the days after voters decided to break the country’s ties with Europe is more than a British problem, reflecting an erosion in public confidence that afflicts democracies around the world. – Washington Post
In the days since Britons voted to leave the European Union, the so-called “Brexit” referendum has created such severe turmoil that public attention is increasingly focused on an extreme option: Can they get out of it? – New York Times
The United States looks unlikely to follow through on a threat to relegate Britain to second-class trade status once its ally leaves the European Union, as it weighs the potential costs of undermining the countries' close diplomatic and military ties. - Reuters
Kurt Volker writes: The rulers of the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States—take your pick—are so convinced that they know better than the masses, and that they are building a better world, that even in defeat, they are bemoaning how wrongly the masses have voted. And that is the looming danger for the future that the Brexit vote foreshadows: that elites will still not address the concerns of a large proportion of their own citizens. – The American Interest
Max Boot writes: It is too soon to say which way the situation will develop, given how many wild cards are still in play. Assuming that Trump-style isolationism does not take hold on the other side of the pond, the U.S. can play a useful role in urging Britain to continue working with Washington to provide much-needed security for the international community as it has done for decades. A good sign that the “special relationship” still exists would be to move expeditiously to negotiate a U.S.-U.K. free trade treaty. - Commentary
Josef Joffe writes: Liberals should listen for their own sake. The middle is not the mob. Ceding the forgotten to the Mussolinis of the 21st century will speed the victory of illiberalism, the common enemy of us all, and a tragedy worse than Brexit. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Michael O’Hanlon writes: To be sure, one can always find some hypothetical scenario in which having the UK outside of the European Union complicates life. To be sure, pulling out will make life temporarily harder for British and European diplomats and bureaucrats as they fashion a revised European order. And most of all, it is true that we need to take seriously the skepticism about globalization that UK voters have just voiced in a powerful and emphatic way. But the postwar global order is hardly falling apart – USA Today
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