Our allies have quickly disappeared
. As part of Sir Keir Starmer’s learn-on-the-job approach to international relations, he went to France to mark Armistice Day earlier this month – the first PM to do so since Winston Churchill.
Britain and France are adrift in an increasingly dangerous world, anxious to prop up “global architecture” which has benefitted them, while painfully aware that they may soon be clinging to the wreckage. It makes sense for the two neighbours to stick together where possible, unsure if anyone else is going to throw them a lifeline.– much of it dictated by international diary commitments beyond their control.
From the point of view of many nations in Africa and Asia, Putin and Xi have much to offer immediately in terms of energy, investment and defence supplies. It is of little concern to those outside the Western alliance that the BRICS bloc overlaps with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea – the anti-democratic authoritarian axis seemingly committed to disrupting Western allies and their post Second World War global order.
Both countries rightly see Putin’s war in Europe as an existential threat. In practice though their commitment to “do everything that is necessary” is limited. Their military assistance is dwarfed by the US and a long way short of voluntarily putting Nato boots on the ground as President Macron once suggested. Both countries are still cutting their overall defence spending.
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