It is not a coincidence that NATO is headquartered in Brussels. We have not left the EU until we have left NATO. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine is never supposed to happen. Its "imminence" is intended as a permanent excuse for, well, pretty much anything, really. Although anyone who did fancy fighting on either the Russian or the Ukrainian side would be, and is, free to attend the relevant embassy and enlist.
Like most things, that choice would confuse Liz Truss, who, just as she does not know the Black Sea from the Baltic, does not know where is in Russia and where is in Ukraine, although she does hold the former to have been invaded by everyone "from the Mongols to the Tatars". Yet she presumes to tell the Russians where in Russia they may station the Russian Army, and she is aghast at their insolent failure to obey her.
Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov quake that Truss does not recognise Russian sovereignty over Rostov and Voronezh provinces. Of course, she does not know where they are. Not all jokes are funny, and there is nothing funny about the joke that Liz Truss is Foreign Secretary.
Couldn't some other role to found for her to keep us laughing?
ReplyDeleteLeader of the Lords? She wouldn't last long, but having been ennobled she could never become Prime Minister.
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