But there was a pulling back in the Middle East, and it had two major consequences: it abetted the rise of the Islamic State {ISIS} in Iraq and Syria, and it contributed to the massive outflow of refugees from that region into Europe. That outflow in turn helped to create the anti-immigration backlash that fueled the British withdrawal from the European Union and the rise of populist/nationalist politics inside almost every EU member state. It
( Thomas L. Friedman )
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