All great until last week. But Trump has now spoken and neither UK nor its allies are determining anything in Ukraine or influencing anything in the US . That's politics for you. No disrespect to the panel as I have a hindsight that they did not. I note that UK and Germany alone have a greater actual and PPP GDP than Russia. If we wanted to arm up and push them out we could and with France and Italy on board it would not be a remotely equal contest. .. but we won't whereas Putin will. Because we are paying for social care whereas he can free his GDP for militaristic aims. Maybe that is true power - to not actually care.
All great until last week. But Trump has now spoken and neither UK nor its allies are determining anything in Ukraine or influencing anything in the US . That's politics for you. No disrespect to the panel as I have a hindsight that they did not. I note that UK and Germany alone have a greater actual and PPP GDP than Russia. If we wanted to arm up and push them out we could and with France and Italy on board it would not be a remotely equal contest. .. but we won't whereas Putin will. Because we are paying for social care whereas he can free his GDP for militaristic aims. Maybe that is true power - to not actually care.