Borderlands, Indeed

Joe Biden was Vice President the last time that the United States promised "unwavering support" to Ukraine on Crimea. Crimea has been effectively part of Russia ever since. Not that it is any skin off Britain's nose either way.

Whatever the failings of the Soviet regime, the dissolution of the Union itself was massively unpopular everywhere outside the Baltic States, and it faced significant opposition even there, especially in Latvia. There was a very good reason for that.

The borders of the Soviet Republics were never designed for international, rather than internal, use. Attempting to put them to that use was always going to cause mayhem. A generation later, it is still doing so. And since the Union has certainly gone forever, then it always will. I say again, though, that none of this is our problem.

It will be good to see so many Conservative rebels against vaccine passports, although most of them will have voted in favour of huge assaults on other people's civil liberties but not on their own. But if Marcus Fysh and others were indeed anti-Nazis, then they would resist no less strenuously any push to war for and alongside the likes of the Azov Battalion, no matter how bad the regime in Russia was.