Trump wants a fractured Europe. I think the idea of a war with Russia supported by the US is not on the cards. A war with a neutral US possibly a United Europe is not a prospect that Russia would relish.Technically we are superior and the Russian supply lines would collapse.

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I think a terrible denouement is unfolding. No European country is going to put boots on the ground or aircraft in the air.
Trump has engineered a Moscow victory, regardless of what we say.
I also believe we are reaching a point were actually supporting Ukraine in its fight raises moral questions.

UK military procurement; the white elephant in the room

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I've yet to see a gingerbread man with a dick.

Adrift from the public sentiment. Disastrous from a political party.

You could fit the talent on show into George Strait's hat.

Seems a reasonable stance. Even if, like France we didn't commit nuclear weapons on paper, it's implicit if say Russia attacked Nato with them nuclear war would follow.
If you have Nuclear weapons, you have them for a reason together other wise is naive and fatuous.

It's a constituency hat will be replicated all over the country.The personification of the old middle class. Moderately affluent, educated and by nature centrist.
Labour will not win these seats with a swing to the left.
But it is a community that would see the benefits of a return to the EU.

Undercover invaders?

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