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From a global perspective the partitioning of #Ireland, #Brexit, and the #Crown are all anachronisms, living on borrowed time but to the detriment of the peoples of the islands...
There is no "splendid isolation" anymore, if there ever was. (#Mercantilism didn't do all that well historically.)
No islanders are able to go it alone, in particular not in a world of rising sea levels.
The threatened peoples of the #Pacific see this clearly, and...