US favors Britain’s exit form EU: Analyst
The United States “favors” Britain’s exit from the European Union, as part of a series of pressures to bring the union into line with its policies, says a geopolitical analyst in Europe.
“The US actually favored a Brexit position,” said Joaquin Flores, director of the Center for Syncretic Studies in Belgrade, Serbia.
“The US continues to place all kinds of pressure on the EU. The pressure they want on the EU is to contain the EU and to make sure that it stays in line with the US position,” he added.
Flores made the remarks to Press TV on Saturday, a day after results of a UK referendum showed a majority of Britons voted to leave the 28-member bloc after 43 years of membership.
“The Brexit outcome is highly suspicious,” he said. “On the one hand it reflects the real yearnings, needs, wants and desires of many people in the UK. On the other hand it just can’t be that easy.”
“The UK was never really part of the EU in the sense of the vision of the original EU developers who wanted to create an independent sovereign European super-state” that was independent of the US, the analyst said.
“This is a very different project than what the US had in mind, which is to keep the EU subordinative to Wall Street and Washington and push them to perhaps war against countries like Iran, Russia and China,” he noted.
US President Barack Obama said on Friday that the United Kingdom and the European Union will remain “indispensable partners” of America.
During his visit to London in April, Obama had urged Britain to stay in the EU.
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