This headline is bogus; the comparison to Brexit makes no sense here. Brexit was voted on in a democratic process (for better or worse), but all of these countries currently have junta governments that were not elected, and were suspended by ECOWAS because of it. Now they are unilaterally “choosing” to leave ECOWAS, but truthfully, ECOWAS considers them illegitimate and has considered military action (though done very little). It will be interesting to see if the threat of leaving finally prompts some collective action or not.

It really isn’t an apples to apples comparison.

Brexit occurred because of an (absolutely imbecilic) political gamble that failed quite catastrophically and the opposition party (that subsequently gained power) latched onto the idea and wouldn’t let go.

Edit: it was the Torries, soup to nuts. Not sure how I crossed that one up lol

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This is occurring because all the countries in question underwent military coups recently (with possible-to-likely Russian - specifically, Wagner - backing). The military juntas that are now in charge are doing this. This is categorically not a democratically-motivated change.