When Brexiteers wake up tomorrow, the ghastly reality that Britain is still a member of the EU will sink in. Those empty promises made by Theresa May that we would leave the bloc at 11pm this evening - deal or no deal - will doubtless echo in their minds. The sense of betrayal will be palpable.

I have never known such levels of anger and disgust at our political class as exist now. Remain-backing MPs seizing control of the House of Commons agenda this week marked a new low. And yet even after hijacking Parliament in that horribly arrogant way, these anti-democrats could not find a majority for anything! I don't know whether to laugh or to cry.

The irony is that since June 23 2016 there has been a clear majority for something in this country, if only MPs would remove their heads from the sand. Brexit voters are more resolute now than they were 33 months ago.

Some say there is light at the end of the tunnel regarding the catastrophic premiership of Mrs May. In a desperate attempt to get a new European treaty through the Commons, she has offered to quit in return for MPs' votes. But what is the use of that? Her "deal" is the modern-day equivalent of the Treaty of Versailles: a bad peace after a great victory. It even involves a reparations payment of £39 billion and proposes the annexation of UK sovereign territory in Northern Ireland. Not only is it the worst deal in history, it will guarantee years of acrimony.

Imagine you spent two years completely screwing up at your job, I mean not merely getting every single thing wrong but loudly, proudly getting in everyone else's face about how right you are. You'd get fired, terminated, 86'd, and Schiff-canned. But not the mainstream media. The media hacks failed for two years-plus, nonstop and without equivocation, but are they ever going to be held to account? No, they're just going to gather in a big circle and Pulitzer each other.

Imagine you committed a racial hate crime where you falsely accused people who didn't look or think like you of a horrible atrocity, and that you'd have gladly picked some poor saps with the wrong skin tone out of a line-up and sent them to prison for decades given the chance. Now imagine the two half-wits you hired to help you managed to get caught on video buying their stereotype get-up and spilled it all to the fuzz, though the fact you paid them with a check - because you're a criminal mastermind - was already enough to get a grand jury to indict your sorry AOC. Now, what are the chances the DA is going to transform your 16 felony counts into a $10K fine and a couple days community servicing? Your chances of said outcome are poor. They are poor because your pals are neither Mrs. Obama or Willie Brown's gal pal.

Now imagine that you studied really hard while the rich kids partied and smoked dope and splattered water on you by running their BMWs through puddles as you walked home from high school. Imagine your last name is "Chang," or that your dad is a soldier and not a hedge fund manager, or that your mom is a waitress and not a TV bimbo. Now imagine how you feel when Durwood Richguy IV gets admitted to Harvard when he can't count past 10 with his Gucci loafers on and you get slotted on a waiting list for Gumbo State.

Imagine you handled classified information and you took it home and put it on your iPad. Do you think the FBI would be super-concerned with your feels about it and give you a pass, like Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit got from Jim Comey, or would you be bunking with Michael Cohen? And speaking of that Looming Doofus, if you lied under oath in front of Congress, do you think you'd be free to wander the country, posting stupid tweets of yourself staring at trees and beaches?

Yeah, sure, that would totally happen.

How do you stop those pesky Ruskies from meddling in the world's greatest democracy, prevent your dodgy emails from leaking and tame unruly social media platforms? Ex-Moscow envoy Michael McFaul has offered this five-point plan.

Ambassador McFaul has frequently been called upon by media over the last two years to give his 'expert' analysis on all things Russia-related - and he was no less adamant about the need to combat the country's nefarious "influence" on Americans during his Thursday testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. This is how the experienced diplomat (and now a distinguished Russiagater) wants to ward off unwanted Russian influence.

After Border Control Commissioner announced "crisis levels" of detentions had been reached in El Paso, Texas leading to hundreds of migrants being held under a bridge, politicians are finally stepping in... to point fingers.

Border Control Commissioner Kevin McAleenan announced Wednesday that 13,400 migrants are currently in custody, which is well above the "crisis level" of 6,000. He expects 100,000 will be taken in by the end of March if steps are not taken.

One of the biggest issues for border agents is the dramatic increase in entire families attempting to enter the US, including a large number of children. As opposed to 20 years ago, many of the migrants attempting to cross the US border are from Central America, making them much more difficult to repatriate than Mexicans. The numbers have even forced the agency to risk some "direct release of migrants."

As pictures of the huddled migrants stuffed into the makeshift detention center began to spread across social media, US politicians began to do what they do best: mobilize the issue for personal political gain.

A new alarming report claims American Christian conservative groups funneled millions to fund "shocking" meddling in European politics. Seems like a big scoop, or just a ploy to sway European Parliament elections?

The report released by the UK-based political website openDemocracy this week spares no black paint to produce a picture of gross interference in European affairs. The perpetrators are conservative Christian charities, which, the records show, pumped at least $50 million into European countries.

All the right names that can scare a left-leaning reader are duly mentioned. Donald Trump? Check. Vladimir Putin? Check. Steve Bannon? Check, three times. Also listed are billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, the DeVos family, including Blackwater founder Erik Prince, and the evangelical preacher Franklin Graham - who notably travelled to Russia earlier this month, the report stressed for some arcane reason.

Of course the US public records over the past decade, which openDemocracy used as the source for the figure, don't identify the recipients. But the readers may well assume that they had the most nefarious goals in mind.

The US President Donald Trump's decree on March 26 granting official US recognition to Israel's illegal annexation of Syria's Golan Heights does not create any new fact on the ground.

Trump's motivations are fairly clear - boost Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's prospects in the April election where the newly-established right-center wing party, Blue and White Party, led by former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and former General of Staff Benny Gantz, surpasses the Likud in the survey poll.

However, no matter Netanyahu's political future, the far-reaching global implications of Trump's move cannot be underestimated. The blatant defiance of international law on sovereign borders sets a bad precedent - be it Kashmir or Crimea or Cyprus.

By ignoring the United Nations charter which vows to refrain from "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state," Trump has opened a Pandora's box, if one were to look at the dustbin of modern history.

Russian ships are keeping a close eye on NATO, whose three frigates recently crossed into the Black Sea, preparing to sail near Crimea and conduct a joint naval drill with Ukraine and Georgia.

The large patrol ship Vasily Bykov, along with surveillance ship Ivan Khurs, both of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, are closely tracking the movement of NATO vessels in the area, the Defense Ministry said.

The photos and videos from Turkey had earlier showed three NATO frigates passing through the Bosporus Strait and entering the Black Sea on Thursday. The ships - Canadian HMCS Toronto, Spain's Santa Maria, and Dutch HNLMS Evertsen - are set to visit the Ukrainian port of Odessa, near Russia's Crimea. They are later scheduled to participate in the Sea Shield 19 naval drill, together with ships from Ukraine and Georgia.

'Russiagate' is over. But its toxic legacy will endure. And in Russia it has led to disenchantment with the United States.

Red Army Street is a 3km-long thoroughfare in Krasnodar, southern Russian, notable for its many bars and nightclubs, which number in the dozens. Indeed, it's so raucous it makes snooty Moscow look rather pedestrian.

Last summer, I was in one hostelry, with a South African farmer who was visiting the region. Naturally, we spoke in English. This seemed to upset three drunken locals who (in Russian) were loudly exchanging anti-American slurs. Eventually, the largest, and scariest, of the trio broke into English to shout "Yankee, go home." To which I swiftly replied that I was Irish. Suddenly, he ran over, bear-hugged me, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Conor McGregor!"

It wasn't always like this. When I moved to Russia, nine years ago, Americans were very popular here. And Russians knew little of my homeland, most wrongly seeing it as an extension of the United Kingdom.

A Pentagon official has said that the US will retain the right to carry out a nuclear strike in response to a conventional attack. A 'no-first-use' policy would erode US allies' belief that they are protected, he said.

Washington has no plans to reverse its policy of "no first use" of nukes, which means it can bomb its adversaries with nuclear weapons under "extreme circumstances," Deputy Undersecretary of Defense David Trachtenberg said in his prepared remarks to the Senate Armed Service Committee hearing on Thursday.

Trachtenberg claimed that if the US changes its take on the issue, which he described as "constructive ambiguity," it "would undermine US extended deterrence and damage the health of our alliances because it would call into question the assurance that the United States would come to the defense of allies in extreme circumstances." This uncertainty might prompt these countries to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, he said.

The hawkish Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) commissioned by President Donald Trump in 2018 lists a range of circumstances under which the US might consider striking first, such as significant strategic attacks on the US, allied or partner civilian infrastructure, forces, their command and control, as well as warning and assessment capabilities with conventional weapons.

US senators have proposed a bipartisan bill to make good on Washington's blackmail of Turkey - by halting the transfer of 100 agreed-upon F-35 jets until Ankara tears up the deal with Moscow to buy S-400 air defense complexes.

The bill on limiting the transfer of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey was introduced by Republican Senator James Lankford, and co-sponsored by Republican Thom Tillis and Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Chris Van Hollen on Thursday.

The draft of the bill states that:

"no funds may be obligated or expended" to transfer the batch of the F-35 aircraft to Turkey or intellectual property and technical data related to its operation and maintenance until a written certification is provided to Congress that Turkey "does not plan or intend" to go ahead with the delivery of the cutting-edge Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles.

The lawmakers claim the purchase of the Russian-made weapons by Turkey would "endanger the integrity" of NATO and "result in a significant impact to defense cooperation" between Washington and Ankara. The military cooperation between Turkey and Russia deals a blow to the US own security, Shaheen argued.