One of the best arguments for Brexit was always that it would lead to a revolt against NATO. No one asked us whether we wanted our border to be in Poland or Ukraine. Or in Alaska or Hawaii, come to that. We are policing Poland's border, and we are preparing to police Ukraine's if we are not already doing so, but we are not policing what most people think is our own, because it is not.
No, we do not derive security from this. Quite the reverse, in fact. We are under attack, right here on our own soil, from the people whom we have actively encouraged, enabled and even created, and against whom, for all their enormous faults, Russia and China are significant bulwarks. Those powers are certainly not our allies. Oh, no, indeed. But nor are they our enemies. Our enemies are right here, and we have only our own lords and masters to blame for that horrific fact.
Brilliant.
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