In today’s interconnected economies and societies, a formal independence is the opposite of gaining real sovereignty and control. This is because the excluded party would be absent from the table when decisions are made, unable to participate as choices are taken that, sooner or later, will affect them.

It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy.

The air with anguish all afreight, / Breeds pestilence within our state,

‘He pushed one of my dolly’s eyes in,’ sobbed Dora, hugging her dolly as she replied. https://books.google.com/books?id=pbQAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA344