It is best to be abstract
It meant war with Britain and America wouldn't have the support of Britain like it did as a colony.
This final chapter depicts the complete transformation (not only in name) from Animal Farm to Manor Farm. There will never be a "retirement home" for old animals (as evidenced by Clover), and the pigs come to resemble their human oppressors to the degree that "it was impossible to say which was which."
The completion of the second windmill marks not the rebirth of Snowball's utopian vision, but a further linking of the animals and humans: Used not for a dynamo but instead for milling corn (and thus making money), the windmill's symbolic meaning has (like everything else) been reversed and corrupted. Animal Farm is now inexorably tied to its human neighbors in terms of commerce and atmosphere.
Juliet is sad to leave her beloved but looks forward to seeing him tomorrow.
In these sentences, the point the author is trying to make is that nature does not care whether plants, animals, or humans live or die.
The overall theme of "The Trail of Meat" is nature, and while the winter itself may have made the journey nearly impossible, the author hints at nature's indiscriminatory behavior against anything with movement, "... It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offence to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. "