{"id":79926,"date":"2026-10-13T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/brexiters-cant-cope-with-the-fact-that-putin-was-cheering-them-on-rafael-behr\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:55:40","slug":"brexiters-cant-cope-with-the-fact-that-putin-was-cheering-them-on-rafael-behr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/brexiters-cant-cope-with-the-fact-that-putin-was-cheering-them-on-rafael-behr\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexiters can\u2019t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian meddling probably didn\u2019t affect the referendum result \u2013 but the Kremlin\u2019s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter<\/p>\n<p>Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn\u2019t feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow\u2019s 2014 annexation of Crimea <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.khpg.org\/en\/1462833443\">on the European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Vote Leave frontman, Vladimir Putin\u2019s land grab was a consequence of Brussels making foreign policy \u201con the hoof\u201d and having \u201cpretensions to running a defence policy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/oct\/13\/brexit-vladimir-putin-russia-referendum-result-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian meddling probably didn\u2019t affect the referendum result \u2013 but the Kremlin\u2019s motives for wanting to undermine the EU still matter Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine didn\u2019t feature much in the Brexit referendum campaign. It made headlines briefly when Boris Johnson blamed Moscow\u2019s 2014 annexation of Crimea on the European Union. According to the Vote &#8230; <a title=\"Brexiters can\u2019t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/brexiters-cant-cope-with-the-fact-that-putin-was-cheering-them-on-rafael-behr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Brexiters can\u2019t cope with the fact that Putin was cheering them on | Rafael Behr\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}