{"id":9684,"date":"2019-08-20T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2019-08-20T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:00:52","slug":"that-brexit-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9684","title":{"rendered":"That Brexit disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading dire predictions about the increasingly likely &#8220;no deal&#8221; Brexit that will take place this Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I ran across two things that drove the point home for me more than anything else.<\/p>\n<p>First (actually, this came second, but let me mention it first), this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/help\/eu-registration-changes-and-brexit-28018\">warning by GoDaddy<\/a> to their UK-based customers who happen to hold a .EU Internet domain name:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/help\/eu-registration-changes-and-brexit-28018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9685\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/godaddy-eu-uk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/godaddy-eu-uk.png 679w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/godaddy-eu-uk-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/godaddy-eu-uk-24x24.png 24w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there is this: An article from three years ago by a Fedja Buric (judging by the name, probably from the region) who offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk\/brexit-lesson-yugoslavia\/\">sobering comparison<\/a> between the breakup of Yugoslavia and Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk\/brexit-lesson-yugoslavia\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9686\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sarajevo_siege_sniper_screens-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sarajevo_siege_sniper_screens.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sarajevo_siege_sniper_screens-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sarajevo_siege_sniper_screens-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may have been written back in 2016, but I think its dire warning is even more relevant today, now that a no-deal Brexit is rapidly becoming a near certainty.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9684' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading dire predictions about the increasingly likely &#8220;no deal&#8221; Brexit that will take place this Halloween. Today, I ran across two things that drove the point home for me more than anything else. 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