Moreover, its leaders do not understand his motivations. He doesn’t want a win in Ukraine; he wants a continuing crisis.
The AUKUS alliance will merely push away France, which has been one of the most sanguine countries to oppose China’s influence.
We urgently need an inquiry to understand our strategic failures in the country, and what went wrong.
Now more than ever, a coherent, holistic strategy is required that will unite and enhance our capabilities to advance Britain’s position in the world.
In his speech, he quoted from the Bible, in its best and most traditional version: yet more evidence of his own conservatism.
Tensions have been building for the best part of a year, serious skirmishes broke out in June – and America is nowhere to be seen.
America’s Constitution is remarkable not because it produces a stream of great Presidents, but because it survives the election of so many bad ones.
Historians concentrate on such great men as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, and ignore the more Trumpian figures who reached the White House.
The Prime Minister has shown a moderation of which his critics did not believe him capable.
The UK has made it crystal clear to its trading partners which side of the table it is going to be on.