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Trump and his acolytes like to slap America's ex-allies about the face. They don't treat the autocrats like that. By their friends shall ye know them. (View Post)

The point of strong conventional deterrence is to avoid a situation in which an emboldened Russia decides to grab territory directly off a NATO state, in the hope that the alliance folds and it can t… (View Post)

Probably because he likes and agrees with Vladimir Putin. Putin has built the kind of autocracy to which Trump aspires. Lifting sanctions on Russia ought also to knock a couple of dollars off the pri… (View Post)

The obvious concern is that the notion of raising defence spending only lasts as long as the Government doesn't have to make a decision on who pays the bill. (View Post)

Russia will be emboldened by the outcome whatever settlement is made over Ukraine. It seems likely to give it at least a large fraction of what it wants - and Ukraine is a vastly larger and stronger … (View Post)