Hitchens: “What British national interest is served by deeper involvement in what is at root a Russo-American war?”
How is this war Russo-American any more than Russo-British?
In fact, Putin seems to have it out for Britain more than the US. He used polonium and Novichok to murder people on British soil, Russian state media has selectively mentioned London as a nuclear target several times, and there have been lots of random comments and threats to Britain from Russia.
Britain is easy pickings for Putin.
One nuke in metro London and they are out of the game.
That is why the Brits should stop pretending they are a serious player and stop poking the bear.
But—the current Brit leadership just can’t help themselves...they keep thinking that the sun never sets on their empire when it fact it just never sets on their propaganda empire.
I don’t believe the UK would be supporting Ukraine the way it is if the US was not also. Other NATO members follow the US lead.
That said, I agree with supporting Ukraine, despite Russia’s nuclear sabre rattling. If we allow nuclear rogue states to use that threat to give them almost complete freedom of action they might get the idea that they can get away with anything short of a direct attack on a nuclear armed state. At that point you can kiss goodbye to the nuclear proliferation treaty. Every nation state will be rushing to get nukes to protect themselves, and in the longer term this will only increase the dangers of a nuclear war because the last thing we need is more nukes in the hands of unstable regimes that could be run or taken over by millinarian religious nutcases in say, the middle east.
“He used polonium and Novichok to murder people on British soil, Russian state media has selectively mentioned London as a nuclear target several times,”
Both of those are outright lies from the same people who told you Trump was a Russian asset and dozens of monstrous other lies in the last 20 years. The polonium guy was murdered by someone once his business dealings, and the “novichok” incident was fentanyl and targeted a guy who was in prison in Russia until Putin released him in a prisoner swap. He was very likely the guy who helped Steele invent his dossier and that was Brits intel silencing him.
Both of those are Brit operations being cast as Russian.
Don’t believe the government claims.