The highlights. Bolding is me.
Never Russia’s goal
Russia's bloody and senseless war against Ukraine has been going on for almost six months. Instead of the original goal of quickly seizing Ukraine and turning it into a puppet state or a province (the name "Ukraine" is derived from the Russian word for “outskirts"), Russia has suddenly encountered an impenetrable wall of resistance.
Polls show that anti-Russia sentiments are at their highest levels since 1983, during the Cold War.
It's weirdly ironic that the people who hate Trump for his racist xenophobia are are the ones most guilty of being racist xenophobes.
increase as as result of Brexit vote.
The "Leave" "victory" is a victory for British xenophobes and racists, exemplified by the racist leader of the Ukip, Boris Johnson (Bo.Jo.)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/27/sadiq-khan-muslim-counci...
Please don't paint this as a "win" for the Left. It isn't.
The returns are still coming in, and there is much debate on who backed what and why, who said what to whom, and so on. But preliminary data tells us that the biggest forces behind the Brexit campaign, and the people crowing about it the loudest, with exceptions, are on the far right, and they used strong appeals to racism, xenophobia, even homophobia to get what they wanted.
