Inability or unwillingness to act in the military sphere should not lead to counter-productive hyperactivity in others.
Whilst the Western powers are united and re-arming, major regional players are refusing to follow their lead.
Moscow’s status anxiety previously impeded an ‘alliance of autocracies’. It can no longer afford it.
As events in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show, the edifice that Putin has painstakingly put in place is now in the greatest of danger.
He bet that it would seek to become a normal country and the region would wane in strategic importance. He was wrong.
Those calling for sanctions risk squandering a golden opportunity to deepen Britain’s vital partnership with this nation.
Britain’s calling is to lead the Anglosphere, a great power almost no one has given nearly enough thought about.
Since at least 2008, he has been striving to ‘Make Russia Great Again’ through the old Tsarist gambit of ‘strategic depth.’