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Trump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed | Rafael Behr

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The 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down was not commemorated much in Britain last weekend .

Few world leaders will be gladder to see Donald Trump return to the White House than the former KGB officer who sits in the Kremlin craving vengeance for his Soviet motherland’s humiliating defeat in the cold war.

Vladimir Putin can’t restore the old superpower parity with the US , but he can make European democrats fear Moscow again.

There is a cost to pretending that not much has really changed, writes Rafael Behr .

Plan A was a version of the old mid-Atlantic bridge role that wasn’t wholly convincing to begin with.

It relied on the pretence that Brexit was something that happened once in the past, a page that has been turned.

But Trump ’s victory reinfects the wound.

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