Most of you may not see the forest because Russian trees and your own citizens block your view.

I believe you have a Russian parasitical viral cyber infection.
Yes this sounds preposterous. At first.
A little infection goes a long way and could completely destroy the European Union and NATO from the inside.

While waging a nonviolent war against the West from within, Russia engaged in kinetic action from Ukraine and Crimea. Over the course of Putin?s 17-year reign, Russian defense spending has increased 20-fold. Cyber war via social media is the most bang for the ruble than any other disruption weapon. Kremlin rhetoric over the past several years has also shifted in a disturbingly confrontational direction. Cyber war took off its gloves once the US stuxnet was discovered thanks to Israel's mistake.

Europe is America?s most important ally, with whom we share values and interests. Abandoning Europe at this time would create a political and security vacuum on the Continent, one that would inevitably be filled by Russia.

In response to Brexit, the U.S. election and the rise of populists across Europe, many in the West are beginning to question the assumptions upon which the postwar liberal world order stands. Protectionism remains wrong, both morally and economically.

Increasingly, calls for reassessing the liberal world order are finding an audience on this side of the ocean, where voices say that it has outlived its usefulness. Meanwhile, a leading figure in what passes for the pro-Trump intellectual movement, who now serves as a high-ranking national security official in the administration, asks of NATO, What is the alliance for once its original purpose has evaporated? The original purpose of NATO was ?to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.? With exception of that last part about Germany, whose neighbors want it to play a more assertive role in continental defense and security, the founding rationale for the Atlantic Alliance endures. NATO need strengthening, not a shutdown.

The West wants peace and Russia wants victory. These desires are incompatible. Those who cherish liberal democracy and wish to see it endure must accept the fact that a Russian regime is once against trying to debilitate and subvert the free world.
While Russia today may not be as conventionally strong an adversary as it was during the Cold War, the threat it poses is more diffuse. Russia is as much an enemy today as it was a generation ago, and we need to adopt a more hardheaded, adversarial footing and mentality to defeat it.

In a globalized world where the criminal influences of Russian money and disinformation can more easily corrupt us than when an Iron Curtain divided Europe, and where the ideological terrain is more confusing than the Cold War?s rigid bipolarity.

Russia presents different challenges than it did a generation ago, not the least of which is maintaining Western unity against a more ambiguous adversary skilled in fake news. Has Farage committed treason? I don't know but that is up to figure out. It appears to me you squabble among yourselves trying to determine what Brexit has to personally enrich or hurt you.

You as a country are not suffering an auto immune Brexit disease you are facing a Russian parasite attack and don't seem to know it.

It took awhile but America now knows it, and the parasites are already deep in the executive branch. ( I hate that this sounds like something Joe McCarthy would say)

A quote by Putin still sticks in my mind when asked about elections,
"Its not who gets the most votes, its who counts the votes".