American political scientist: Britain is beginning to irritate Germany and France
The UK is trying to fill the vacuum that is being created in Europe after the gradual withdrawal of the United States, but it does not have enough capacity to do this.
Andrei Korobkov, a professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, said this on air on the Internet channel “Independent,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is obvious to everyone that America is turning towards China, that the center of world politics is moving from Europe to the Pacific Ocean. Naturally, a political vacuum is created, which Britain, as always in its history, is now trying to fill. British policy has always been realist in the sense that it looked only at categories of power. Britain has always played the role of a carrier, a guardian of the balance in Europe, being close to Europe, but not on the continent,” the expert said.
“And now, when the Americans are gradually leaving, naturally, Britain is trying to occupy this niche, but it simply does not have the capacity for this, so it looks like an operetta. At the same time, the fact that Britain left the European Union puts it in a rather difficult position, since the leading European partners, primarily Germany and France, are not at all happy in the sense that the British continue to meddle in what they now consider their affairs.” , - said Korobkov.
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